Vin Gormley and Kettle Pond

| August 30, 2015

Vin Gormley and Kettle Pond

11.42 miles; charlestown, ri looking to increase my mileage to get ready for hiking in ireland (have i mentioned i’m going to be hiking in ireland?), i decided to give this one another go, and the conditions were, if possible, even worse than they were at the end of july. hot, buggy, and humid. miserable hike. […]

Francis Carter Preserve

| August 12, 2015

Francis Carter Preserve

4.5 miles; charlestown, ri it’s been ages since i hiked with the usual suspects, and a whole week since i’ve hiked, period. missed both the hiking and the suspects, but boy howdy was it humid this morning! we talked a lot about ireland. did i mention i’m going to ireland? there are still blueberries to […]

Vin Gormley/Kettle Pond Loop

| July 31, 2015

Vin Gormley/Kettle Pond Loop

11.6 miles; charlestown, ri again, trying to get my mileage up, so i combined these two hikes into one long one. and it was, again, a bitchin’ hot day, but not as bad as wednesday. i started this hike at the kettle pond visitor’s center, and headed into that hike, but instead of turning left […]

Francis Carter Group Hike

| July 18, 2015

Francis Carter Group Hike

5.09 miles; charlestown, ri today i hiked again with the facebook group, “take a hike.” great bunch of people, so glad i joined them. this poor little toad probably thought he’d found the perfect spot in the crotch of a tree. he forgot that he was right next to the trail, though. everyone got a photo […]

Kettle Pond-Kimball-Burlingame Loop

| July 12, 2015

Kettle Pond-Kimball-Burlingame Loop

4.7 miles; charlestown, ri i don’t know, the mileage on this hike changes every time i do it. of course, today it was like elebenty-billion degrees outside, so i went in as straight a line as possible… didn’t stop to take many photos, either. this is a great hike if you don’t mind the part […]

PCHC Hike, Vin Gormley Trail

| May 24, 2015

PCHC Hike, Vin Gormley Trail

8.5 miles; charlestown, ri another very sparsely-attended providence county hiking club hike; there were just 2 of us but we had fun anyway. i did some counting, and it was my 10th hike on this property, not counting the very first time i was here in january of 2012, where i got about a mile […]