Parker Woodlands

| December 13, 2014

Parker Woodlands

6.92 miles; coventry and foster, ri so between a trip to cincinnati to see the steelers and the bengals (yay stillers!), deluges of rain, and a case of the flu, i missed a whole week’s hiking. it was saturday, and hunting season, and genius that i am, i decided to hit an audubon refuge that […]

Maxwell Mayes Preserve

| November 15, 2014

Maxwell Mayes Preserve

4.21 miles; coventry, ri there aren’t too many places i want to hike on saturdays during hunting season. audubon preserves are best, because there is no hunting allowed ever. which really leaves some not bad places in rhode island, max mayes among them. if you do some re-tracing here you can get over 4 miles in. […]

Maxwell Mayes Wildlife Refuge

| October 5, 2014

Maxwell Mayes Wildlife Refuge

4 miles; coventry, ri lovely day with my usual suspect friends on this audubon society preserve. we usually hike on wednesday mornings, and since i’ve been working i miss their company. there were large swathes of blueberry foliage turning red. and in another spot, there was an entire hillside covered with hay-scented fern turning gold. […]

Parker Woodland

| September 28, 2014

Parker Woodland

7.2 miles; coventry and foster, ri today’s hike was yet another providence county hiking club walk, this time through parker woodlands. we did the whole thing and people weren’t really too interested in the cairns by the time we got to them. still a nice walk on a nice day. this property is owned by the […]

North South Trail Trek, Leg 3

| April 5, 2014

North South Trail Trek, Leg 3

9.32 miles; richmond, exeter, west greenwich and coventry, ri even though i cheated and caught a ride for a big section of this walk, i managed the most mileage since the accident last july. it was a cold day, but for the parts where i kept moving, it wasn’t bad. this is a very pretty […]

Maxwell Mays Wildlife Refuge

| January 9, 2014

Maxwell Mays Wildlife Refuge

4 miles; coventry, ri you know how, when you stub your toe, if you then whack your head, your toe stops hurting? today’s hike was like that. it was so durned COLD, i forgot about my ankle. almost had frostbite in my thumbs, but i forgot about my ankle. i revisited the maxwell mays wildlife […]