auntie | May 21, 2014
4.57 miles; griswold, ct if you’re at all like me, you simply cannot continually pass a trail head without needing to see what’s there. i can’t count the number of times i passed this sign. it’s at the intersection of routes 138 and 201 in voluntown. i finally decided to satisfy my curiosity on tuesday […]
auntie | May 20, 2014
3.16 miles; north stonington, ct you didn’t actually think i’d only walked 1/2 mile on sunday did you? i did not. i just haven’t had time to put this second sunday post up until today. this north stonington town property is another “secret” hiking trail i found in my wanderings. it’s accessible from the billings […]
auntie | May 18, 2014
.5 miles; north stonington, ct it seems like months since i was last out hiking. first it was the blister, then it was rain, then it was eesh, this is may, time to do yard work! but i was finally nudged into the woods again by an article in the local paper about how north […]
auntie | April 22, 2014
4.83 miles; danielson, ct if ever the expression “your mileage may vary” were true, this would be the time. this was, according to everything i could find, a 1-1/2 mile out-and-back. pfft. my final total for the hike on my iPhone gps was 4.83 miles. little bit different. and nothing mentioned two blazed hiking trails. there […]
auntie | April 20, 2014
4.2 miles; meriden, ct welcome to hike number two in my (hopefully) continuing series, “saturdays by the book.” this week i chose nature walks in connecticut by rené laubach and charles w. g. smith, published by the appalachian mountain club in 1999. mount higby is hike number 24, and can be found (in my edition) on page […]
auntie | March 10, 2014
1.03 miles; hamden, ct this was a very short hike due to other considerations, but it was one that very much whetted my appetite to see more of this state park. very steep grades and great vantage points await. the trails were very well marked, and there are a lot of them. due to family […]
