auntie | August 17, 2016
Two in a row non-hiking report posts! It’s a new record. This is more of a report of a scouting expedition in Norwich, CT. And if you got here via my Facebook page, the answer is… The Upper Falls of the Yantic River in downtown Norwich, CT. The legend goes that um, well, why don’t […]
auntie | August 6, 2016
2.06 miles; Ledyard, CT On the drive to the Avery Preserve hike I passed a sign for this preserve, owned by the Nature Conservancy of Connecticut. Both because the first hike was so short and because I am constitutionally unable to pass by a trailhead without at least checking it out, a friend and I […]
auntie | August 6, 2016
2.2 miles; Ledyard, CT This hike was a guided hike sponsored by the Avalonia Land Conservancy. Which, by the way, was named after the prehistoric microcontinent of Avalon, parts of which can be found in Great Britain, the Maritime provinces of Canada, northern Maine, all of Rhode Island, and parts of coastal Connecticut. That’s all […]
auntie | July 11, 2016
3.4 miles; Redding, CT Our last stop on our odyssey out to the far western reaches of Connecticut took us to the Collis P. Huntington State Park. This leaves us with only 4 more hikes to go to complete the Sky’s the Limit Challenge. I am so psyched! This isn’t a long trail, as you can […]
auntie | July 11, 2016
4.3 miles; Barkhamsted, CT As I mentioned in the previous post, I inadvertently did this Challenge hike about 3 weeks earlier, so it came as no surprise. But then again, it was kind of fun to see it again so soon and to show it to my hiking partner Stacy. Do I look sheepish here? […]
auntie | July 10, 2016
5.5 miles; Windsor Locks, CT Although I now live in Connecticut, I grew up in Rhode Island, and as a Rhode Islander, I have this ingrained idea that any trip longer than about 20 minutes, you should pack a lunch. Anything over 2 hours, plan to stay overnight. Some of the DEEP hikes are pretty […]
