auntie | December 28, 2016
6.11 miles; Exeter, RI Today was another “Take a Hike!” hike with Stephen Graham’s group. It was advertised as a hike on the Ben Utter Trail in Arcadia, but I thought Ben Utter was too short, so I parked at the Escoheag Trail trailhead and hiked in from there. Yes, I even went over “Auntie’s […]
auntie | November 19, 2016
3.1 miles; Exeter, RI So today’s hike was a group hike. See? Not always out there tromping about alone. I really think this property is beautiful… I could wish it were larger, though. Still, perfect day in the woods with new friends. There were lots of these ferns just lighting up sections of the woods. […]
auntie | November 13, 2016
7 miles; Exeter and West Greenwich, RI I hadn’t been to Arcadia in ages, and I was kind of “jonesing” for this hike. As I walked, I did a lot of thinking about hiking alone. I actually prefer solo hiking most of the time to hiking with groups, large or small. Not that I don’t […]
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 | August 13, 2016
Yes, I know, it’s a very rare non-hiking-report post. I’ve posted about this before, but I thought this information was important to share again. I recently received a note from Kerry Robinson of the Narragansett Chapter of the AMC about the former picnic grove and backpacking site in Arcadia, off the Tippecansett Trail near Stepstone […]
auntie | June 6, 2016
3-3/4 miles; Exeter and West Greenwich, RI This hike started out normally enough until, about 1/4 mile in, I run into “Nature Boy,” out for a nude hike. How do I find these people? First it was the couple making the beast with 2 backs on the Ayers Gap trail, then the girl taking a […]
