auntie | August 31, 2019
4.6 miles; Exeter, RI Today’s hike was with a group of friends. It’s been quite a while since I hiked this iconic RI trail and I forgot how pretty it is. In fact, I decided that I need to get back to this whole trail system at some point. We had a sunny and warm […]
auntie | August 26, 2019
7.2 miles; Exeter, RI Another “mileage” hike. I had a lot of junk food to make up for this week! I really like this hike a lot; I had forgotten how much. Great weather, too. Back pain was almost non-existent so whatever I did wrong last week I managed to fix. Yay! Don’t know that […]
auntie | August 15, 2019
1.7 miles; Exeter and Richmond, RI Just a short pre-lunch walk with a friend around this pretty little pond. We ambled through the abandoned fish hatchery and stopped to admire the cardinal flowers in bloom. There were also some very attractive joe pye weed plants that seemed to be a smaller variety than the ones […]
auntie | July 22, 2019
3.9 miles; Exeter and Richmond, RI A continuation of the earlier hike today, still looking for Black Trumpets. I did not find any here, either, but I did find something unexpected… that I’m allergic to bee stings. Oh, happy joy. I totally need to revise my Favorite Hikes page about this hike. There’s now a […]
auntie | January 17, 2019
5.84 miles; Exeter, RI I started this hike a bit late in the day; I had originally meant to do the normal Shelter/Breakheart route. But daylight was escaping me, so I wound up taking an alternate route back which involved rather a large amount of (dirt) road-walking. There was, however, a very nice bit in […]
auntie | December 1, 2018
5.5 miles; Exeter, RI Second hike of the day, this time with the “Take-A-Hike” FB group on somehow one of the few trails in Arcadia I’ve missed. We also took in the Dove Crest Trail and part of the Arcadia Trail, and we started out with a visit to the Tomaquag Museum, which is about […]
