auntie | August 9, 2014
5 miles; exeter, ri if you recall a couple of weeks ago i wanted to go out and complete the hike i started a year ago which was interrupted by a broken ankle, but circumstances got in the way and i was unable to do it. well, better late than never, because i completed it […]
auntie | July 23, 2014
6.1 miles, chester, ct the hubs and i took a mini camping vacation at hammonasset state park in madison, ct, and while we were there, i did a local hike. the connecticut forest and park association maintains over 800 miles of blue-blazed hiking trails, and the cockaponset trail makes up 7 of those miles. i did the […]
auntie | July 13, 2014
5.49 miles, chepachet, ri this was a providence county hiking club hike, and there were just the 4 of us. this property is a botanist’s paradise. so many different plants! we had a lot of fun; this is a great property, with lots of well blazed trails and excellent signage. and not just plants! this is […]
auntie | June 12, 2014
6 miles, north stonington, ct this was the second of two guided hikes this sunday of connecticut trails weekend. this time we began and ended at the wyassup lake boat launch in north stonington. it’s really a figure-8 hike, as we walked out on an old woods road, crossed the narragansett trail, and then picked […]
auntie | May 23, 2014
5.73 miles; exeter, ri i had a couple of objectives for today’s hike. one was to see how easy it is to get from the uri master gardener trail that winds around the ri veteran’s cemetery to the trails on the queen’s river preserve. turns out, pretty easy. the other objective was to visit my […]
auntie | May 21, 2014
6.87 miles; exeter, ri great day for a “usual suspects” hike in arcadia. we chose the mount tom trail, but only went as far as the stone chairs which are on the ledges. the mount tom trail continues across route 165 and ends at the escoheag trail. this hike was a regular wildflower bonanza. there […]
