Day 5 27th N-S Trail Trek

| May 4, 2019

Day 5 27th N-S Trail Trek

13 miles; Foster and Burriville, RI, and Killingly, CT Alas, once again I won’t be able to do the last section in two weeks, so today’s hike concluded my version of the 27th Trek. It did include Ginny “Queen of the North South Trail” Leslie’s commemorative post and my favorite view on the whole trail, […]

STL#3—Old Furnace SP

| July 26, 2018

STL#3—Old Furnace SP

2.25 miles; Killingly, CT Ugh. Another “swimming in the air” type high humidity day, with rain threatening the whole time. Had some trouble finding the official selfie spot on the trail, but I wasn’t alone. I met a nice couple from Hartford who had the same trouble. We hiked back to our cars together after […]

26th Annual N-S Trail Trek, Leg 5

| May 5, 2018

26th Annual N-S Trail Trek, Leg 5

13.4 miles; Foster and Gloucester, RI and Killingly, CT After the 17-mile leg, then the “easy-peasy” 10.1 miler, this didn’t seem as if it would be very difficult at all. Well, a 13-mile hike is still a long-assed hike, and I haven’t been spending hardly any time hiking recently. Long story short, I was really […]

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 4

| June 13, 2015

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 4

8.4 miles; killingly, ct and foster, ri another leg down! there was only about a mile and a half of this that was in the woods; the rest was all road walking. but they were very pretty, very scenic country roads for the most part, so it wasn’t too bad. we started from pond road […]

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 3

| May 16, 2015

PCHC North-South Trail, Leg 3

9.3 miles; glocester, ri and killingly, ct this was a great hike and a good, if small, group. the weather was fine for hiking; cool and mostly overcast, but the mosquitoes were horrible. we really moved out, just out of self-preservation. this section of the north-south trail starts at the george washington campground in burriville, […]