auntie | April 27, 2013
6.5 miles 2.3 mph as i did the first half of the tippecansett trail last month, i originally wanted to do the 2nd half today, but couldn’t get a car spot, so i kind of quickly created a loop to include a good portion of the unfinished part of the tippecansett. it turned out […]
auntie | March 13, 2013
8.05 miles 2.3 mph whew. mount tom can be a bear of a trail at the best of times, and i am still a little rusty, north south trail trek notwithstanding. at any rate, there’s more climbing on these trails than i have been doing. so this hike was a much-needed workout. i also […]
auntie | March 6, 2013
7.48 miles 2.5 mph i combined a couple of shorter hikes to get this monster. the weather started out nice but the sun went in and it got colder, so it wasn’t the best day hiking. and i was really pretty beat by the end, but not as bad as last friday, so i’m getting […]
auntie | March 1, 2013
7.6 miles 2.7 mph ooof. i wrote a check my legs almost couldn’t cash. and it was made out to vin gormley. a beautiful march day (good riddance, february), but after 2 months of relative inactivity, this one really hurt. in retrospect, it might have been prudent to start with a shorter hike. hope […]
auntie | December 20, 2012
7.56 miles ★★★★★ today was as close as i could get to a solstice hike. this property was absolutely fantastic. what a gorgeous place to hike. it really felt wild. i encountered some sort of water mammals (otters? beaver? muskrats?)—could see the splashes they were making, and they were yanking on low branches that hung […]
auntie | December 6, 2012
8.16 miles ★★★½ the couple of times i hiked these trails earlier this year, i followed the loop in a counter-clockwise direction. this time, in order to spice things up a bit, i went in a clockwise direction. i also did an extra loop on the shelter trail that took this into 8+ mile territory. i […]
