auntie | January 25, 2017
3 miles; North Stonington, CT A friend and I tried 3 times to get to the Narragansett Trail area that had the Native American stonework on it (see this post from June of 2014), and were frustrated 3 times, twice by the extremely swollen Yawbux Brook, and once by the poor blazing and trail-making of the […]
auntie | January 19, 2017
1.89 miles; South Glastonbury, CT This was another Peter Marteka-inspired hike (see this article in the Hartford Courant) in Glastonbury. And I’m ashamed to say I didn’t have the ovaries to go through the Dark Hollow Brook culverts under Route 2, so it ended up being a pretty short, albeit interesting, hike. This hike starts […]
auntie | January 13, 2017
5.42 miles; Glastonbury, CT Wow, long time between hikes, what with a busy schedule and SNOW (ugh). But we have been having a January heat wave, so snow’s all gone, and my schedule cleared today, so I dashed out. Saw from the Glastonbury Town map of the Falls that there were connecting trails to Gay […]
auntie | January 1, 2017
3.12 miles; Derby, CT Today was the First Day Hike/Walking Stick Drawing sponsored by the CT DEEP and the Sky’s the Limit Challenge. It was a decent little hike—a bracing number of ups-and-downs and some nice views for such a suburban park. However, no walking sticks. There were 50 being given away, but 164 entries. […]
auntie | December 30, 2016
1.3 miles; Groton, CT Today was supposed to have been a Lantern Hill hike with some friends, but the trail was too icy-looking to take a chance on, so we ended up on this GOSA property. It’s a nice hike, but so small, it hardly seemed worth the trip. Still, a hike is a hike, and […]
auntie | December 27, 2016
As promised, here is Part 2 of my ten favorite hikes of 2016. #5—Mamacoke Island This isn’t a long hike, but it is quite beautiful, and a lot of fun. You’re actually on an island in the Thames River in New London, and you have some amazing views of the Navy’s submarine base and the […]
