auntie | October 17, 2015
7.25 miles; exeter, ri this was a providence county hiking club outing based on a hike found in 1986’s Walks and Rambles in Rhode Island book, which included 2 miles on a austin farm road, a gravel road. we did the road first, and this turned out to be a very nice hike with, again, perfect october […]
auntie | October 12, 2015
5.25 miles; exeter, ri this was a surprisingly well-attended pchc hike taking in parts of other trails including mt. tom, shelter, and john hudson to make a loop. we had absolutely gorgeous weather. october of 2015 is going down as a glorious month on the trail. you have to remember to look up once in […]
auntie | October 11, 2015
3.14 miles; exeter, ri i shared some of my hen-of-the-woods bounty with a friend battling cancer, and hiked with her and some of her friends today. nice people—beautiful day. the woods are just amazing right now. the yellow beech leaves catch the light and are downright dazzling. didn’t find anymore hens, but there were lots of […]
auntie | October 5, 2015
5.5 miles; exeter, ri today was a pchc hike mostly following ken weber’s mount tom hike, but skipping the lower half of barber trail to use the sand hill trail and the old ten rod road instead. it made for a nice alternative, and i got to see parts of arcadia i’d never seen before. […]
auntie | September 28, 2015
4.1 miles; exeter, ri this was originally supposed to be a providence county hiking club hike on the northern half of the tippecansett trail, but unfortunately, the south county rod and gun club has closed off the 1500 feet of trail that crosses their property. this subsequently engendered quite a few back-and-forths with the trails […]
auntie | September 19, 2015
7.46 miles; exeter and richmond, ri today was a hot, humid day for my first post-ireland hike. this is a really good section of the north-south trail—we were in the woods the whole time, with lots of moderate ups and downs. it’d be perfect in better weather, but the unseasonable heat for this time of […]
