auntie | September 16, 2014
1.7 miles, east providence, ri this was a lovely little after-work hike with the folks from the providence county hiking club. this is an interesting property with its history and the trails that hug the shore of the 10-mile river. i’m just gonna be really lazy here and outsource the bulk of the information about […]
auntie | September 14, 2014
8.6 miles, voluntown, ct you may have noticed that my posting has not been as frequent as in the past. that’s because i am now working during the week, and can’t normally get out to hike. because of that, i’ve tried to do more mileage during the weekends. this hike was perhaps a bit of […]
auntie | August 19, 2014
4.69 miles, durham, ct this hike was great fun. it consists of a loop, part of which is the blue-blazed mattabesett trail, and a few side trails, including a red-and-blue-blazed trail named the lone pine trail. it starts from a parking area on route 77 in durham, and goes straight up the bluff. fortunately for me […]
auntie | August 6, 2014
2.5 miles, higganum, ct not having learned my lesson from the previous day’s foray on the mattabesett, i decided to visit another short section of the same trail on the way home. i could almost out-source this entire post to the blogger at boxingthenet. the trail head is at this small state park, the seven […]
auntie | August 5, 2014
3.5 miles, middletown, ct i’ve been wanting to do this hike ever since reading this blog post. it looked intriguing. and it was very scenic and very challenging. the blue-blazed mattabesett trail, maintained by the connecticut forest and park association, is part of the new england trail, which runs from the connecticut shore to the […]
auntie | July 23, 2014
6.1 miles, chester, ct the hubs and i took a mini camping vacation at hammonasset state park in madison, ct, and while we were there, i did a local hike. the connecticut forest and park association maintains over 800 miles of blue-blazed hiking trails, and the cockaponset trail makes up 7 of those miles. i did the […]
