auntie | May 4, 2019
13 miles; Foster and Burriville, RI, and Killingly, CT Alas, once again I won’t be able to do the last section in two weeks, so today’s hike concluded my version of the 27th Trek. It did include Ginny “Queen of the North South Trail” Leslie’s commemorative post and my favorite view on the whole trail, […]
auntie | May 7, 2017
7.9 miles; Thompson, CT, Burrilville, RI, and Douglas, MA Actually this was me hiking to meet some friends who were doing the Coffeehouse Loop in the Douglas State Forest, but I just had to do more mileage. Most of my return was on the Southern New England Trunkline Trail, or SNETT, which is pretty nice […]
auntie | April 30, 2016
7.3 miles; Burrilville and Gloucester, RI This was a PCHC hike which essentially duplicated Leg #2 of our North-South Trail hike, except I was just not feeling it. As a result I opted, since I’ve already done the N-S Trail, to take a road shortcut at the end that cut off about a mile or so of hiking. […]
auntie | February 27, 2016
2.5 miles; Burrillville, RI Today was a very cold day for a short Providence County Hiking Club hike along the Branch River in northern Rhode Island. The Branch is the largest Blackstone River tributary in Rhode Island, and this town-owned park at times felt like a much wilder place. I couldn’t find much online about […]
auntie | November 3, 2015
9.7 miles; thompson, ct, burrillville, ri, and douglas, ma met a friend here by hiking in to the coffeehouse loop in douglas state forest from the airline trail trailhead. she doesn’t do long hikes, but wanted to begin to check out the douglas state forest, and i, well, love long hikes. we met at 8:00 […]
auntie | June 20, 2015
8.5 miles; burrillville and glocester, ri if you don’t know the story of the walkabout trail, it’s a good one. from the new england mountain bike association: In 1965, Australian soldiers from the Royal Autralian Navy were stuck in Rhode Island, waiting for their brand new missile destroyer. So how does one amuse 300 soldiers […]
