Nicholas Farm WMA, South

| June 26, 2015

Nicholas Farm WMA, South

3.5 miles; coventry, ri i hiked this with a friend as an exploratory hike. i’ve been on this management area before, but not this part of it. pretty interesting, if fairly beat up by motorized vehicles. it includes a long stretch of the north-south trail, which, in turn, includes the exact midpoint of the north-south trail, […]

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 4

| June 13, 2015

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 4

8.4 miles; killingly, ct and foster, ri another leg down! there was only about a mile and a half of this that was in the woods; the rest was all road walking. but they were very pretty, very scenic country roads for the most part, so it wasn’t too bad. we started from pond road […]

PCHC Hike, Vin Gormley Trail

| May 24, 2015

PCHC Hike, Vin Gormley Trail

8.5 miles; charlestown, ri another very sparsely-attended providence county hiking club hike; there were just 2 of us but we had fun anyway. i did some counting, and it was my 10th hike on this property, not counting the very first time i was here in january of 2012, where i got about a mile […]

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 3

| May 16, 2015

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 3

9.3 miles; glocester, ri and killingly, ct this was a great hike and a good, if small, group. the weather was fine for hiking; cool and mostly overcast, but the mosquitoes were horrible. we really moved out, just out of self-preservation. this section of the north-south trail starts at the george washington campground in burriville, […]

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 2

| April 25, 2015

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 2

8.17 miles; pascoag and glocester, ri i walked a good part of this leg when i did the middle loop of the walkabout trail in april of 2013. this was a great hike, and we had beautiful weather; sunny and cool, still no bugs. i felt great, too, as if i could have walked another […]

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 1

| April 11, 2015

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 1

6.8 miles; douglas, ma and pascoag, ri i never managed to finish the great north-south trail trek, either year i started it, so i’ve never been on this leg of the trail. the providence county hiking club has broken the trail into more and smaller legs than the “great north-south trail trek” people, and just […]