auntie | October 26, 2015
8.25 miles; charlestown, ri after having gotten a taste of this on saturday, i decided to return today and hike the whole thing. it’s gorgeous right now. but so is everything. and i just noticed i’ve got 82+ miles for this month. wonder if i can manage to hit 100? stay tuned! i decided to start […]
auntie | October 24, 2015
9.3 miles; richmond and charlestown, ri this was my least favorite leg yet, in spite of the fact that part was along the vin gormley trail, my favorite trail. burlingame management area is nasty for footing, very rocky. and endless! but only one more leg to go now. i started off this morning in darkness, […]
auntie | October 22, 2015
6.7 miles; exeter, ri today’s hike was with my usual suspect friends, and it turned out that one of the suspects had an “ulterior motive” for bringing us here. she and her husband put up a new trail sign in order to make clear that the mount tom trail starts from appie crossing, not the check station. […]
auntie | October 17, 2015
7.25 miles; exeter, ri this was a providence county hiking club outing based on a hike found in 1986’s Walks and Rambles in Rhode Island book, which included 2 miles on a austin farm road, a gravel road. we did the road first, and this turned out to be a very nice hike with, again, perfect october […]
auntie | October 13, 2015
7.8 miles; groton, ct the groton crosstown trail runs from bluff point state park to avalonia’s town’s end preserve, crossing six other properties in between with only a short bit of road-walking. i’ve been wanting to do this hike for ages, but because it’s (ostensibly) a 6-mile one-way hike, i needed a car spot. the […]
auntie | October 10, 2015
6.8 miles; richmond, ri better than half of this was road walking, and part of that was along very busy route 138. but the part that was actually in carolina north was great. the beech foliage is especially brilliant right now. i was struck by the contrast of these blue berries against the red virginia […]
