Arcadia, Browning Mill Pond & Roaring Brook Trails

| March 6, 2013

Arcadia, Browning Mill Pond & Roaring Brook Trails

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 […]

Forced March

| March 1, 2013

Forced March

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 […]

Francis Carter Preserve in the Cold

| January 23, 2013

Francis Carter Preserve in the Cold

4 miles   2.4 mph when i got up this morning and it was 7-degrees at my house (WHOA!), i considered going back to bed, but this was a usual suspects hike, so i went anyway. glad i did, sort of. i mean, it was cold. but once you get going it’s not too bad. […]

Ninigret NWR

| January 1, 2013

Ninigret NWR

3.04 miles   2.7 mph first day of the new year. it snowed over the past weekend, and put down close to a foot at my house, and i wasn’t too keen on trying the woods without snowshoes or gaiters, so i thought i’d take a quick jaunt on the ninigret wildlife refuge in charlestown. […]

Francis Carter Preserve

| December 19, 2012

Francis Carter Preserve

3.79 miles   ★★★★ today was a beautiful crisp day for a usual suspects hike. we hiked for 2 hours and it seemed as if it was over too soon. there were a lot of blowdowns throughout this preserve, although someone had been through clearing most of the trails, so the going wasn’t difficult. we noticed several […]

Vin Gormley Trail

| November 26, 2012

Vin Gormley Trail

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 […]