auntie | October 20, 2017
9.5 miles; Charlestown, RI As has become a recurring theme on this blog, I really felt as though I needed a good bit of mileage today, so besides doing the 8-mile Vin Gormley trail, I added an extra mile and a half by visiting North Camp and the beach there. Foliage was looking pretty good, […]
auntie | December 3, 2016
1.25 miles; Charlestown, RI Our last stop before lunch was another Charlestown Citizen’s Land Alliance property. This small preserve comes with a lot of history… a from a 1920s sauna to an 1830s sheep barn. There were 2 fields and some woodland trails. Aside from being so short, it was a lovely place. Well really, I guess […]
auntie | December 3, 2016
1.84 miles; Charlestown, RI Our second stop today was a visit to this relatively new preserve belonging to the Charlestown Citizen’s Land Alliance. Geologically, it was a lot like Duval, which makes sense, since it’s part of the same glacial moraine (hence the name). We met a member of the Conservation Commission who encouraged us […]
auntie | December 3, 2016
1.75 miles; Charlestown, RI Today was a 3-fer trail scouting trip with Ernie and Jen for his blog, Trails and Walks in Rhode Island. Our first stop was supposed to be a hike to check out the new trails at the Francis Carter Preserve, but they were not quite done yet, so we just did the […]
auntie | October 17, 2016
4.6 miles; Charlestown, RI Today was a solo hike and boy howdy the biting black flies were out! We’ve had a frost, so I took the bug spray out of my pack. BIG MISTAKE. I had bare arms and by the end of the hike my arms were bloody. I think this was also my […]
auntie | October 8, 2016
4 miles; Charlestown, RI Funny how hiking an old, familiar preserve with new people makes everything seem new again. Today’s PCHC hike was like that. I’ve been here dozens of times, yet today it seemed new and fresh. There were millions of these webs all over the low-growing understory brush here (mostly low-bush blueberry and […]
