auntie | November 18, 2016
6.5 miles; Voluntown, CT It’s been literally 4 1/2 years since I hiked this, and not much has changed about the hike, but a lot has changed about me. Then it was an epic journey. Today, just another great day in the woods. And I got to kinda sorta see the wind farm in western Coventry […]
auntie | November 13, 2016
7 miles; Exeter and West Greenwich, RI I hadn’t been to Arcadia in ages, and I was kind of “jonesing” for this hike. As I walked, I did a lot of thinking about hiking alone. I actually prefer solo hiking most of the time to hiking with groups, large or small. Not that I don’t […]
auntie | October 17, 2016
4.6 miles; Charlestown, RI Today was a solo hike and boy howdy the biting black flies were out! We’ve had a frost, so I took the bug spray out of my pack. BIG MISTAKE. I had bare arms and by the end of the hike my arms were bloody. I think this was also my […]
auntie | October 14, 2016
5 miles; Westerly, RI Wow. I’ve hiked these properties before, but I obviously never got to see all that much. Woody Hill, which is a State of Rhode Island Wildlife Management Area, is stunning. Gentle hills criss-crossed with stone walls, quarries, old forest roads, and trails, these woods feel quite far removed from suburban Westerly, although […]
auntie | October 12, 2016
4.75 miles; Westerly, RI After yesterday’s sublime experience I couldn’t wait to get out into the woods again, but I felt I needed a bit more mileage. I hadn’t been back to this property in a while, so I thought I’d visit, and taking a page from my “double-figure-8” hike on Hoxie, I planned a […]
auntie | October 3, 2016
4.12 miles; Danbury, CT All done but one! And not for anything, but if this had been the first one of these hikes I had tried, I never would have gotten this far. This was a KILLER hike. A lot of elevation gain in a very short distance. My quads were screaming at me by […]
