auntie | July 11, 2015
5.8 miles; exeter, ri this is my favorite hike in this part of arcadia, starting from the state garage on route 3 on the richmond/exeter line. this is the one that goes under route 95. apparently the state is installing traffic cameras and lights through here, and there was a crew hard at work laying […]
auntie | April 22, 2015
5 miles; exeter & richmond, ri in honor of meeting ellie heyder last weekend, and because it’s been so long since i’ve been in arcadia, i thought i’d revisit this “walk in the watershed.” if you’re unfamiliar with what i’m talking about, ellie heyder is one of the authors of the pamphlet walks in the watershed, published […]
auntie | April 18, 2015
2.9 miles; richmond, ri this was a fun walk with the ri wild plant society led by two uri professors to a vernal pond in carolina management area. we got to see lots of cool creatures, from fairy shrimp to newts to caddisflies that build homes for themselves and then hide in them like hermit crabs, […]
auntie | April 12, 2014
4.85 miles; exeter and richmond, ri new blog feature! i have decided to walk some hikes in some of my favorite books on random saturdays. i’m calling it “saturdays by the book.” my first featured hike is from walks in the watershed, a nifty little pocket-sized pamphlet by charles f. hickox and elly heyder, and published by […]
auntie | April 5, 2014
9.32 miles; richmond, exeter, west greenwich and coventry, ri even though i cheated and caught a ride for a big section of this walk, i managed the most mileage since the accident last july. it was a cold day, but for the parts where i kept moving, it wasn’t bad. this is a very pretty […]
auntie | November 2, 2013
1.62 miles; exeter and richmond, ri we’ve been very lucky with the weather so far this year. again, another day in the mid-60s and sunny and beautiful. this trail, while flat and short, had some slightly more challenging stretches with lots of rocks and some sharp ups and downs. i got a brand new pair […]
