auntie | August 30, 2019
7.5 miles; Voluntown and Sterling, CT Mileage hike. Um, perhaps I should explain that… See, I’ve been on Weight Watchers for lo, these many months (since the last week of March). And I’ve found that you can get a lot more flexibility in your weekly points allowance when you do a minimum of one really […]
auntie | August 27, 2019
7.5 miles; West Greenwich, RI My weekly “mileage” hike. Came away from this with very bad back pain for some reason. Could be that I got a new daypack. It’s not any heavier than the old one, but it’s a different size; longer. I’ve scheduled a massage, so stay tuned. This is why you have […]
auntie | August 26, 2019
7.2 miles; Exeter, RI Another “mileage” hike. I had a lot of junk food to make up for this week! I really like this hike a lot; I had forgotten how much. Great weather, too. Back pain was almost non-existent so whatever I did wrong last week I managed to fix. Yay! Don’t know that […]
auntie | August 5, 2019
7.9 miles; Charlestown, RI I just needed to get some mileage today, and the Vin Gormley is the easiest place to do that. It’s a nice trail and a loop. And had I had the time, I could have added probably another 5 miles to it. Alas, I did not have the time today. But […]
auntie | July 1, 2019
8.1 miles; Glastonbury, Manchester, and Vernon, CT Wow, it’s been a year and a half since I last hiked the Shenipsit. It would be a vast understatement to say that last year was just not a great year for me. But I finally got back to trying to complete this blue-blazed hiking trail, and I’m […]
auntie | June 8, 2019
7.7 miles; Charlestown, RI This was a great exploratory hike with my pals Bob and Mel of some of the many NEMBA-created mountain bike trails in the northern part of Burlingame State Park. They are really lovely trails, and well marked. We also saw a mysterious structure at North Camp on Wachaug Pond [Ed. Note: […]
