auntie | November 9, 2014
5.5 miles; sterling, ct today was a sunday, and with hunting season in full swing, i just didn’t want to venture into rhode island, so i decided to stay in connecticut. and i also wanted to scratch another trailhead itch. back in april of last year, when i hiked the pharisee rocks trail, i started from […]
auntie | October 30, 2014
7.1 miles; mansfield, ct this is one of the hikes on my to-do list, and i finally got to it. it turned into a much longer hike than i anticipated, and i’m not sure why. this was a very nice hike through both a state park and a state forest, with an interesting flood control project […]
auntie | October 25, 2014
1.3 miles; north stonington, ct the avalonia land conservancy recently acquired two properties in north stonington, one through purchase and one as an inheritance. the purchase was babcock ridge, a parcel that runs along babcock road in north stonington opposite yet another great avalonia preserve, the henne property. the inheritance was erisman woods, bequeathed to […]
auntie | October 24, 2014
9 miles; ledyard, ct the connecticut forest and park association maintains 825 miles of trails in 96 towns in connecticut. i can now proudly say i’ve knocked off two of those trails for [drumroll please] about 25-3/4 miles! yay me. although, to be fair, i’ve also hiked some blue-blazed trails in other parts of the […]
auntie | October 13, 2014
7.6 miles; voluntown, ct i had originally posted this hike as an event at the providence county hiking club, but only one other hiker turned up, making this a two-blogger hike. i could take the easy way out and outsource this entire post to my friend at trails and walks in ri, but i won’t. […]
auntie | October 12, 2014
4 miles; lyme, ct the town of lyme, connecticut, has a wealth of open space, with not only 2 state forests, but 20 (yes, two-oh) preserves of varying sizes owned by the lyme land trust. there’s one really nice swath of land that consists of 5 contiguous properties with a a trail system throughout all five […]
