Narragansett Trail Section 4

| July 15, 2017

Narragansett Trail Section 4

6.29 miles; North Stonington and Voluntown, CT and Hopkinton, RI This was an excellent, if exhausting, hike with the PCHC. Much climbing, both up and down, on slippery rocks, and a lot of tricksy water crossings. It was great to see some old friends and make some new ones, and we even, at one point, […]

Narragansett Trail Section 3

| June 17, 2017

Narragansett Trail Section 3

4.75 miles; North Stonington & Voluntown, CT The Facebook Group, Providence County Hiking Club, is hiking the Narragansett Trail in its entirety, in 5 smallish sections. Today’s PCHC hike was on a very humid day after a 2-inch rain the day before. So we got kind of damp. This is such an interesting and varied […]

Hop River Trail & Talcott Ravine

| June 11, 2017

Hop River Trail & Talcott Ravine

7.5 miles; Bolton, Vernon, and Rockville, CT First it’s too cold, and today it was too damned hot; high 80’s. Not fun. Also I think I’ve about had it with Rails-to-Trails for a while. Also not fun? About 2,000 cyclists and 1,000 joggers coming up from behind. This is an EXTREMELY popular trail. The ravine […]

Narragansett Trail Section 2

| May 21, 2017

Narragansett Trail Section 2

3.5 miles; North Stonington, CT This was the second section of the PCHC’s Narragansett Trail traverse (for some background on the trail, see my post about Section 1). We had an absolutely beautiful day, and I FOUND RAMPS! I was so excited and happy about this, but no, I’m not going to say exactly where they […]

Air Line and SNETT Trails

| May 7, 2017

Air Line and SNETT Trails

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 […]

Nipmuck Trail Section

| May 1, 2017

Nipmuck Trail Section

10.06, Ashford and Union, CT Wow, killer hike. My friend Stacy and I planned this as part of getting another TSTLC photo, which we did first, then slogged through this intense section from Ashford to Bigelow Hollow State Park in Union. Whew. Lotta ups and downs, and very taxing. This is at the very beginning of […]