auntie | August 31, 2018
1.5 miles; North Stonington, CT This little local Avalonia property has been on my “Hike’s I’d Like to Do” list for a long time, and today I finally got the opportunity to check it out. It’s really quite lovely, but alas, very short. It was also, thanks to recent rains, a mushroom cornucopia. This property […]
auntie | August 21, 2018
4.2 miles; Preston, Griswold and North Stonington, CT Today’s hike was a special treat! I was contacted through this very blog by a member of Avalonia Land Conservancy with an offer of a tour of their newly-acquired Tri-Town Forest Preserve. I asked if I could invite friends, and when he said I could, I posted […]
auntie | July 11, 2018
1.8 miles; North Stonington, CT This Avalonia property is a former Girl Scout camp, and there are several old buildings still extant, including a nice picnic pavilion. It was more of a meander than a real hike, but a nice walk nonetheless. Tefftweald is bounded on two sides by Wyassup Brook and this particular side, […]
auntie | September 21, 2017
5 miles; North Stonington, Griswold, and Preston, CT Some Garden Club friends who are also members of Avalonia Land Conservancy invited me along to view a parcel they’re trying to get the money together to purchase in North Stonington. It is a huge, 400-acre property which abuts some Nature Conservancy parcels and other Avalonia land, […]
auntie | July 15, 2017
6.29 miles; North Stonington and Voluntown, CT and Hopkinton, RI This was an excellent, if exhausting, hike with the PCHC. Much climbing, both up and down, on slippery rocks, and a lot of tricksy water crossings. It was great to see some old friends and make some new ones, and we even, at one point, […]
auntie | June 17, 2017
4.75 miles; North Stonington & Voluntown, CT The Facebook Group, Providence County Hiking Club, is hiking the Narragansett Trail in its entirety, in 5 smallish sections. Today’s PCHC hike was on a very humid day after a 2-inch rain the day before. So we got kind of damp. This is such an interesting and varied […]
