auntie | December 3, 2012
7.38 miles ★★★★★ you gotta love a hike that starts (and ends) on a 175-year-old covered bridge! this is a beautiful hike. pretty strenuous, with 400+ foot elevation changes, but worth it. this was a ct forest & park association blue-blazed trail, and was pretty clearly marked and well-maintained. this is the comstock covered bridge […]
auntie | November 30, 2012
8.56 miles ★★½ i had so much fun doing the (almost) 8-mile vin gormley trail on monday that i decided to do another 8-miler, this time in the pachaug state forest. well, i found out there’s a big difference between (almost) 8 miles on a flat, well-traveled footpath and 8 1/2 miles on what were […]
auntie | November 26, 2012
7.88 miles ★★★★½ the first time i walked this, i didn’t get very far. i got kind of lost and turned around after less than 2 miles. [i also obviously hadn’t gotten the hang of this whole blogging thing, either!] the second time i walked this we were much more ambitious, but i had a […]
auntie | October 24, 2012
7.19 miles ★★★★★ the usual suspects hike today was the entirety of the arcadia trail. we did a car spot. it was cold and dreary, but not so cold i couldn’t wear shorts! this is an extremely pretty trail, whose only fault is the almost omnipresent road noise from route 95. i guess i don’t […]
auntie | May 26, 2012
★★★ 7.7 miles wow. longest hike yet. hike got off to an unpromising start when i couldn’t find the exact place to park, but got better. until, that is, i hit the muddy, dirt-bike ravaged part. then there were the 7000 puddles i had to detour around… okay, not my favorite hike. but not terrible. […]
