auntie | July 7, 2015
6.5 miles; lyme, ct well i finally got back here, and boy howdie, am i glad i did. i was last here in october of last year, and i didn’t get to see much. yesterday i had the time to visit as long as i wanted. lyme preserves is exactly that—a series of small land trust […]
auntie | June 19, 2015
6.2 miles; s. kingstown, ri so i decided to go back and do the entire hike we had originally planned to do on june 10. besides hoping the laurel blossoms hadn’t passed, i just needed to shake the dust off, and duval is good for working up a sweat. also, the laurels were ALLLLLMOST there today. so […]
auntie | May 4, 2015
6.2 miles; west greenwich, ri i originally intended to do the longest hike possible on this property by hiking all the perimeter trails, including wickaboxet. unfortunately, i was overdressed, because it was a very hot day in the still-leafless woods. also, i had a full 2-liter platypus which i quickly determined would not be enough […]
auntie | May 2, 2015
6.6 miles; north stonington, ct since these two preserves are such short walks, i decided to stretch them by walking to them from my house, which added considerable mileage. these are both really nifty properties, with a moderate climb up from erisman woodlands and a very steep climb down from the ridge that runs between reuteman road […]
auntie | April 29, 2015
5.85 miles; north smithfield, ri i downloaded a gps track from a fellow hiker and followed his track through this somewhat neglected wildlife management area in the northern part of the state. it was interesting; there were 3 quarry sites, an old ymca camp, a cemetery, and a mysterious stone structure which might have been the […]
auntie | April 28, 2015
5 miles; groton and new london, ct i always wanted to see what this pedestrian walkway along the goldstar bridge between groton and new london was like, and since i had a fairly long wait in store at my groton car dealership’s service department for a recall fix, now i know. it’s a long-assed bridge—very […]
