Francis Carter

| December 4, 2014

Francis Carter

3.93 miles; charlestown, ri i have a zillion things to do later today, but i didn’t want to miss a chance to hike, so i zipped over to the francis carter preserve to get in a quick 4-miler. i heard that the national weather service has predicted a much warmer than expected december for new […]

Kettle Pond-Kimball-Burlingame Trails

| December 2, 2014

Kettle Pond-Kimball-Burlingame Trails

5 miles; charlestown, ri in trying to decide where i wanted to hike today, i vaguely recalled an old “usual suspects” hike through burlingame that started at the kettle pond visitor’s center in ninigret. i looked it up, and saw that it was 4 miles and took around 2 hours. and since it wasn’t entirely […]

Canonchet Trail

| December 1, 2014

Canonchet Trail

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… […]

The Grills

| November 29, 2014

The Grills

3.96 miles; westerly, ri i’m in the final approach for my first 100-mile month, and i only really needed to get in just under 4 miles today, so i hit the grills. i thought about the green falls gorge, but decided it might be too slippery right now. very quiet here today. i was the only […]

Weetamoo Woods

| November 28, 2014

Weetamoo Woods

5.62 miles; tiverton, ri another providence county hiking club hike, this was the perfect antidote for a big thanksgiving dinner, and a real gem of a property to boot. this is a large wooded tract in the middle of tiverton, and hunting is permitted on part of it. the other part, the pardon gray preserve, […]

Shelter to Hudson to Breakheart to Shelter

| November 25, 2014

Shelter to Hudson to Breakheart to Shelter

6.9 miles; exeter, ri also known as arcadia, shelter and breakheart trails, i think, in a previous post. with thanksgiving coming up later this week, and snow in tomorrow’s forecast, i thought it might be a good idea to get some mileage in, so i decided to do this 7-mile loop through arcadia. this is […]