auntie | October 3, 2016
2.32 miles; Washington Depot, CT While we (my hiking partner and I) were out in the far western reaches of Connecticut checking off two more Sky’s the Limit Challenge Hikes (and yes, we stayed overnight—I’m still a Rhode Islander at heart, okay?) we decided to visit this preserve especially to see the train tunnel. Yup, […]
auntie | October 3, 2016
4.12 miles; Danbury, CT All done but one! And not for anything, but if this had been the first one of these hikes I had tried, I never would have gotten this far. This was a KILLER hike. A lot of elevation gain in a very short distance. My quads were screaming at me by […]
auntie | October 2, 2016
4.5 miles; Stamford, CT Another hike down in the DEEP’s Sky’s the Limit Hiking Challenge. A fellow blogger told me this park wasn’t especially exciting, but that I’d see many multi-million dollar houses, and he was right about that. Stamford is a pretty toney part of Connecticut. Still, it’s a very pretty property, particularly with […]
auntie | September 20, 2016
8 1/2 miles; Voluntown, CT; West Greenwich and Exeter, RI For anyone familiar with the Rhode Island hiking canon, by which I mean books by Ken Weber and Charles Hickox and Elly Heyder, this hike is listed as one of the most strenuous or difficult in the area. And no one seems to know what […]
auntie | September 15, 2016
7.5 miles; Voluntown and Sterling, CT I did the complete loop from top to bottom, starting on the Pachaug Trail, to the Pachaug/Quinebaug Connector Trail, to the Quinebaug Trail, to the Phillips Pond Trail, and back to the Pachaug. But I kind of cheated by using the Forest Road instead of following the Quinebaug all the […]
auntie | September 12, 2016
6.6 miles (as hiked from home; 2.5 miles total trails), North Stonington, CT I just wanted to get out without having to drive, so I took this opportunity to try out the new (to me) trail blazed on the Erisman Woodlands/Babcock Ridge Preserves that are within walking distance from home and I loved it. You can […]
