auntie | April 22, 2015
5 miles; exeter & richmond, ri in honor of meeting ellie heyder last weekend, and because it’s been so long since i’ve been in arcadia, i thought i’d revisit this “walk in the watershed.” if you’re unfamiliar with what i’m talking about, ellie heyder is one of the authors of the pamphlet walks in the watershed, published […]
auntie | April 19, 2015
5.25 miles; westerly, ri what if you gave a hike and nobody came? that happened to me today. i was supposed to lead a providence county hiking club hike on the grills in westerly today, but nobody showed up. fortunately it was also a scheduled hike for another hiking club, the yankee trailers, who did show up. they […]
auntie | April 11, 2015
6.8 miles; douglas, ma and pascoag, ri i never managed to finish the great north-south trail trek, either year i started it, so i’ve never been on this leg of the trail. the providence county hiking club has broken the trail into more and smaller legs than the “great north-south trail trek” people, and just […]
auntie | April 8, 2015
4.25 miles; voluntown, ct every now and again i get a real hankering to re-visit a hike (and isn’t that a grand word, “hankering?”). i’ve been thinking about this hike for a while, and today i managed to get there. it has a lot of really interesting features, and despite the fact that this part of […]
auntie | January 17, 2015
4.76 miles; plainfield, ct naively thought i’d knock off another blue-blazed trail today, the quinnebaug. i’ve hiked most of it already, i just needed that last bit from flat rock road out to route 14a in sterling. it looked to be about 2-1/2 to 3 miles. “piece of cake,” i thought. “nice way to spend […]
auntie | December 20, 2014
5.33 miles; west greenwich, ri this morning i planned on hiking the wickaboxet wildlife management area from the tillinghast pond trailhead on plain road, which would have made this hike a 6-1/2 miler, but when i got there, i was unable to even park my car because the rather large lot was full of flatbed […]
