auntie | August 31, 2015
8.37 miles; exeter, ri today was forecast to be even hotter than yesterday, but since i’m moving my clock ahead in order not to be jet-lagged when i get to ireland (have i mentioned i’m going hiking in ireland?), i was able to hit the trail at around 6:45 am, so i was basically done […]
auntie | August 26, 2015
7.35 miles; exeter and richmond, ri another couple of hikes i linked together to get extra miles in preparation for hiking in ireland (have i mentioned i’m going to be hiking in ireland?). it was not as hot as it had been, but still very humid and buggy. this is a “milky” mushroom, so-called because of […]
auntie | August 22, 2015
8.22 miles; west greenwich and exeter, ri after so many miles of road-walking, this leg was mostly in arcadia management area, and mostly in the woods. yay! it started on hazard road in west greenwich, then entered arcadia through the overgrown parking lot of the old pine top ski area on escoheag hill. from there […]
auntie | July 11, 2015
5.8 miles; exeter, ri this is my favorite hike in this part of arcadia, starting from the state garage on route 3 on the richmond/exeter line. this is the one that goes under route 95. apparently the state is installing traffic cameras and lights through here, and there was a crew hard at work laying […]
auntie | July 8, 2015
4.5 miles; exeter, ri i decided to use a very old (1992) ken weber book to plan today’s hike. well, nearly a quarter century has gone by, and it didn’t really look much like the book described. weber talks about old farm buildings… um, nope. there are still some fields here, but i never really […]
auntie | June 17, 2015
7.2 miles; exeter, ri i am not by nature a “morning person.” of course, this is like saying that mount everest is not, by nature, a valley. i really, really, don’t like getting up in the morning. but weirdly, i just kind of woke up this morning, and since i was up so early anyway, i […]
