auntie | April 17, 2017
1.86 miles; North Stonington, CT The Providence County Hiking Club has decided to hike the entire Narragansett Trail this year in short sections, and today’s hike is Section 1, which goes from the beginning of the blue-blazed Connecticut Forest & Park Association trail, at the base of Lantern Hill in North Stonington, to the beginning […]
auntie | April 10, 2017
12.1 miles; Hampton, Eastford and Pomfret, CT Day #4 of my Five Hikes in Five Days almost killed me [Spoiler: It didn’t.] It came about because I was looking at the Sky’s the Limit Hiking Challenges, and noticed that these two TSTLC destination parks were connected to each other via the Air Line Trail and thought, […]
auntie | April 9, 2017
8.41 miles; Haddam and Chester, CT Day Three and Hike #3 of Five Hikes in Five Days was a bit more challenging than days 1 and 2. I took this opportunity to finish this one blue-blazed trail system. It’s nice you don’t have to out-and-back on the same trail, what with all the side trails. This […]
auntie | March 27, 2017
9 miles; East Hampton, Colchester, and Hebron, CT Oh, my, what a bad day my friend Stacy and I chose for a hike! Raining and in the mid-30s. Nevertheless, we had a blast. Oh, and also we originally set out to get our first STLC shot for 2017 and never found it. So there was that. […]
auntie | January 27, 2017
5.6 miles; Haddam, CT So one day I was poking around on the CFPA’s interactive hiking map, and I found this one blue-blazed trail that could be completed in two sections of approximately 7.5 miles each, and there were loop trails, so it didn’t have to be an out-and-back. Psyched! Another blue-blazed trail to add to […]
auntie | January 25, 2017
3 miles; North Stonington, CT A friend and I tried 3 times to get to the Narragansett Trail area that had the Native American stonework on it (see this post from June of 2014), and were frustrated 3 times, twice by the extremely swollen Yawbux Brook, and once by the poor blazing and trail-making of the […]
