auntie | September 10, 2015
10.49 miles; ireland first day on the trail, and i guess, technically, it should really be coars to mastergheey, because i caught a ride 4 1/2 miles in and then bailed about 5 1/2 miles from finishing. yeah, it was originally a more than 20-mile day. and it also included the highest point on the […]
auntie | August 30, 2015
11.42 miles; charlestown, ri looking to increase my mileage to get ready for hiking in ireland (have i mentioned i’m going to be hiking in ireland?), i decided to give this one another go, and the conditions were, if possible, even worse than they were at the end of july. hot, buggy, and humid. miserable hike. […]
auntie | July 31, 2015
11.6 miles; charlestown, ri again, trying to get my mileage up, so i combined these two hikes into one long one. and it was, again, a bitchin’ hot day, but not as bad as wednesday. i started this hike at the kettle pond visitor’s center, and headed into that hike, but instead of turning left […]
auntie | July 29, 2015
11.16 miles; west greenwich, ri as i’ve told a few close friends anyone who stands still long enough to listen, i am planning a hiking trip to ireland this september. it will be an 8-day self-guided hike on the kerry way hiking trail, which closely follows the famous “ring of kerry” road. the best part is that i […]
auntie | July 24, 2013
12 miles not very fast remember walter brennan? that funny little hitching, limping walk he had? that’s what i look like today. i ended up not doing the full hike, due to several unfortunate circumstances. one, i was simply not prepared, physically, for the rigors of hiking in the berkshires. i mean, seriously NOT […]
auntie | May 4, 2013
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 […]
