Wickaboxet from Tillinghast Pond

| May 7, 2014

Wickaboxet from Tillinghast Pond

6.52 miles; west greenwich, ri whelp, this was almost a complete disaster. got to the trailhead and realized i’d forgotten my hiking boots. but since i was already there and this was a usual suspects hike, there was no point going home to retrieve them, so i ended up hiking over 6-1/2 miles in… yup. […]

Schoolhouse Pond Trail

| April 22, 2014

Schoolhouse Pond Trail

6.47 miles; charlestown, ri wow. this was a longer hike than i anticipated. but it was quite interesting. i started out on sammy’s c’s trail, which i had explored before last december. my ankle was not up to walking the whole trail at that time, so i cut it short, but i have been wanting to […]

Wickaboxet Loop Trail

| March 27, 2014

Wickaboxet Loop Trail

6.27 miles; west greenwich, ri wow. best. trail. ever. this one was on my list of hikes to do in 2014, and am i ever glad i got to it! there is so much to see, and the trail itself is such fun to hike, that i simultaneously wanted to go as fast as possible […]

Breakheart Pond Loop

| March 23, 2014

Breakheart Pond Loop

5.62 miles; exeter, ri it was a kind of cold day, and only the 2nd time i’ve been in arcadia since the accident. that aside it was great to be back. i wanted to walk the trail on the west bank of breakheart brook, but i needed more mileage, so i included a circumnavigation of […]

Westerly and Hopkinton Grills

| March 15, 2014

Westerly and Hopkinton Grills

6.56 miles; westerly and hopkinton, ri well this was quite an eventful hike. i walked over 6-1/2 miles, and got to see the new tomaquag brook bridge, which is, in a word, spectacular. and i saw almost all of the hopkinton grills. and i lost my car keys, which necessitated a 45-minute wait in the […]

Tillinghast Management Area

| April 25, 2013

Tillinghast Management Area

5.5 miles   2.6 mph just the two of us usual suspects again today, and we moved pretty smartly through this nature conservancy property. we are now in another hunting season—turkey, i believe—so blaze-orange is again a necessity on most of these properties. shirley is up to 25 pounds now and boy, i felt that […]