auntie | January 3, 2015
3.9 miles; north stonington, ct i’ve blogged about the yannatos preserve before. it’s the only hike i can do from my front door without having to drive to the trailhead, although, granted, walking safely on country roads is a chancy business at best. but since, once again, i couldn’t really motivate, i figured i’d take […]
auntie | January 2, 2015
4.38 miles; north stonington, ct once again, i could barely motivate today, but i got dressed in my hiking clothes and went out anyway. glad i did, of course. this loop is shorter than i had recorded last time, so i have made changes to the entry in the hikefinder. also, it’s a wee bit tricky to […]
auntie | October 25, 2014
1.3 miles; north stonington, ct the avalonia land conservancy recently acquired two properties in north stonington, one through purchase and one as an inheritance. the purchase was babcock ridge, a parcel that runs along babcock road in north stonington opposite yet another great avalonia preserve, the henne property. the inheritance was erisman woods, bequeathed to […]
auntie | September 27, 2014
1.8 miles; north stonington, ct this was a fun and informative mushroom walk through the fowler preserve sponsored by the north stonington citizens land alliance. not much out there, but people did manage to find stuff, including this lovely hexagonal-pored polypore. you can find the fowler preserve in the hikefinder.
auntie | July 30, 2014
2.4 miles, north stonington, ct this was the second of the local preserves i wanted to explore today. it’s another very pretty place, and although it feels in places like you’re walking too close to houses, parts feel more remote. there’s a cool old cellar hole and a giant boulder with a ladder. and mysterious […]
auntie | July 30, 2014
2.3 miles, north stonington, ct there are two largish preserves in north stonington that i had yet to explore, and they’re quite near each other, so i decided to do them both in one day. this was the first. i know the name sounds vaguely like a third reich fortification or something, but i am […]
