North South Trail Trek, Leg 3

| April 5, 2014

North South Trail Trek, Leg 3

9.32 miles; richmond, exeter, west greenwich and coventry, ri even though i cheated and caught a ride for a big section of this walk, i managed the most mileage since the accident last july. it was a cold day, but for the parts where i kept moving, it wasn’t bad. this is a very pretty […]

2014 North South Trail Trek

| February 22, 2014

2014 North South Trail Trek

Just wanted to point my 3 or 4 regular readers to the Great Swamp Press blog, where there is info on the 2014 North-South Trail Trek. I can’t make the first two legs, but I did those last year. Maybe I’ll be able to do leg 3; I’m going to register for it. See you […]

North South Trail Trek, Leg 5

| May 4, 2013

North South Trail Trek, Leg 5

12.8 miles   2.7 mph whew. did this 13-mile walk (sans shirley) with the north south trail people through foster and glocester, ri. large amount (maybe 3 miles) of road-walking, and another large amount on old woods roads that had seen extensive motorized vehicle traffic, maybe another 3 miles. and you can just imagine how […]

North South Trail Trek, Leg 2

| March 24, 2013

North South Trail Trek, Leg 2

13.8 miles  2.7 mph wah. this one nearly kilt me. i actually, at the 10.5 mile point, i again contemplated calling the dh to come get me. at that point i was, best as i knew, still 4 miles from the car. it was my last chance, though, as the last 4 miles was all […]

North South Trail Trek, Leg 1

| March 9, 2013

North South Trail Trek, Leg 1

11.5 miles   2.9 mph kind of a cool trek. me and 50 complete strangers headed off this morning to hike the first leg of the ri north south trail, from blue shutters beach in charlestown to meadow brook pond in richmond. i did not disgrace myself; i finished about 2/3 of the way down […]

Arcadia South

| August 10, 2012

Arcadia South

4.38 miles  ★★★★½ found an interesting-looking route on a map of some trails in the very southeast corner of arcadia to try. this was a blast, once i found the correct trail head. the first part of the trail, which was a section of the north-south trail, was quite boulder-y and challenging. after i turned […]