auntie | April 6, 2015
4 miles; hopkinton, ri or as i like to call it, crossing the canonchet brook over and over and over again. i didn’t document my first crossing, which is not far from the parking lot at the canonchet preserves trailhead on route 3. but this is the 2nd crossing, at the old mill site on […]
auntie | February 13, 2015
2.2 miles; hopkinton, ri if you had told january 2012 me that february 2015 me would be strapping on snowshoes in single-digit temperatures and traipsing through the woods, jan 2012 me would have laughed myself sick. herself sick. pronouns are kind of tricky in this situation. and i didn’t have to break trail today, either. […]
auntie | December 1, 2014
6 miles; hopkinton, ri another month, another new beginning. decided to see what the entire canonchet trail was like to do from the route 3 trail head to stubtown road and back. verdict? it’s hard. there are a couple of easy stretches, but mostly it’s bouldery and hilly. which is not to say it’s bad… […]
auntie | November 4, 2014
7.4 miles; hopkinton, ri my new-found completist fetish keeps getting me into trouble. i had originally planned to hike the entire tippecansett trail today, from stepstone falls to the state line marker at camp yawgoog, but this is a car spot hike, and my partner in crime had to bow out. so i decided to […]
auntie | November 3, 2014
5.68 miles; westerly and hopkinton, ri i was looking for someplace fairly local to hike today, and i haven’t been here all summer, so… the water levels were surprisingly low, not that that should shock me, but it kind of did. this is a property, however, that never disappoints. it’s a great walk. and because […]
auntie | October 20, 2014
3.6 miles; hopkinton, ri today was my first monday in 6 weeks free (not counting holidays like columbus day and labor day), so i decided to celebrate by visiting two of my favorite places nearby, canonchet woods preserve and black farm. interestingly, canonchet brook runs through both of these properties, even though they’re several miles apart. […]
