auntie | May 23, 2017
10.85 miles; North Andover and Andover, MA Today’s hike was by far the best section to date. The Harold Parker State Forest was absolutely beautiful. It reminded me a lot of Arcadia. And that was only the beginning 3 miles or so. And got my first glimpse of the Boston skyline. And at one point the […]
auntie | May 16, 2017
10.1 miles; Boxford, Middleton, and North Andover, MA I certainly won’t say this will be a favorite section once I look back on this adventure. Firstly, it was a little heavy on road-walking. Which could have been forgiven, had there not been so darned much water in the trail. I was fording lakes and rivers […]
auntie | May 11, 2017
10.61 miles; Ipswich, Rowley, Georgetown, and Boxford, MA This was a long section, made longer still by a portion of the trail which was flooded by a beaver dam (you will notice beavers are kind of a theme in this post). Aside from the road-walking-heavy detour, however, it was mostly in the woods. This section passed […]
auntie | May 1, 2017
10.06, Ashford and Union, CT Wow, killer hike. My friend Stacy and I planned this as part of getting another TSTLC photo, which we did first, then slogged through this intense section from Ashford to Bigelow Hollow State Park in Union. Whew. Lotta ups and downs, and very taxing. This is at the very beginning of […]
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 | September 12, 2015
12.9 miles; ireland well this day went decidedly better than yesterday. the sun was (intermittently) shining, and there was (intermittently) no rain. that’s not to say there wasn’t a rain shower or three, but still, it beat the all day heavy rain of yesterday. my route took me right back by the blind piper. i’d […]
