Vin Gormley Trail

| November 21, 2014

Vin Gormley Trail

7.88 miles; charlestown, ri today felt like a good day to get in a long hike, and i’m glad i did, although that last mile was COOOOLLLLDD with the wind whipping across wachaug pond. not much to say about the vin gormley that i haven’t said before. i do love this hike, especially if you […]

Tippecansett Trail, Southern End

| November 4, 2014

Tippecansett Trail, Southern End

7.4 miles; hopkinton, ri my new-found completist fetish keeps getting me into trouble. i had originally planned to hike the entire tippecansett trail today, from stepstone falls to the state line marker at camp yawgoog, but this is a car spot hike, and my partner in crime had to bow out. so i decided to […]

Mansfield Hollow State Park

| October 30, 2014

Mansfield Hollow State Park

7.1 miles; mansfield, ct this is one of the hikes on my to-do list, and i finally got to it. it turned into a much longer hike than i anticipated, and i’m not sure why. this was a very nice hike through both a state park and a state forest, with an interesting flood control project […]

Pequot Trail, Southern End

| October 24, 2014

Pequot Trail, Southern End

9 miles; ledyard, ct the connecticut forest and park association maintains 825 miles of trails in 96 towns in connecticut. i can now proudly say i’ve knocked off two of those trails for [drumroll please] about 25-3/4 miles! yay me. although, to be fair, i’ve also hiked some blue-blazed trails in other parts of the […]

Hell Hollow

| October 13, 2014

Hell Hollow

7.6 miles; voluntown, ct i had originally posted this hike as an event at the providence county hiking club, but only one other hiker turned up, making this a two-blogger hike. i could take the easy way out and outsource this entire post to my friend at trails and walks in ri, but i won’t. […]

Parker Woodland

| September 28, 2014

Parker Woodland

7.2 miles; coventry and foster, ri today’s hike was yet another providence county hiking club walk, this time through parker woodlands. we did the whole thing and people weren’t really too interested in the cairns by the time we got to them. still a nice walk on a nice day. this property is owned by the […]