auntie | August 30, 2019
7.5 miles; Voluntown and Sterling, CT Mileage hike. Um, perhaps I should explain that… See, I’ve been on Weight Watchers for lo, these many months (since the last week of March). And I’ve found that you can get a lot more flexibility in your weekly points allowance when you do a minimum of one really […]
auntie | April 6, 2019
9.5 miles; West Greenwich and Coventry, RI and Sterling, CT I called this Day 2.5 because it’s the dreaded Day 3 18-mile section, and I just didn’t feel up to 18 miles. Instead, I met my pals Mel and Bob at Pinetop and hiked the last 9+ miles with them. The detour wasn’t as bad […]
auntie | July 31, 2018
3.28 miles; Moosup & Sterling, CT This hike is on what becomes the Trestle Trail in Rhode Island; aka, The Washington Secondary Bike Path. The stretch between the end of the pavement in Moosup and the parking lot on Route 102 in Coventry is in kind of bad shape, but there are supposedly plans to […]
auntie | July 15, 2015
5.63 miles; voluntown and sterling, ct wow, soooo humid today. i kept having to stop and wipe off my fogged glasses. buggy, too. i had originally planned to do the full 8-mile hell hollow loop, but by the time i’d done the northern part, i realized i didn’t have time to do all of hell […]
auntie | November 9, 2014
5.5 miles; sterling, ct today was a sunday, and with hunting season in full swing, i just didn’t want to venture into rhode island, so i decided to stay in connecticut. and i also wanted to scratch another trailhead itch. back in april of last year, when i hiked the pharisee rocks trail, i started from […]
auntie | May 26, 2012
★★★ 7.7 miles wow. longest hike yet. hike got off to an unpromising start when i couldn’t find the exact place to park, but got better. until, that is, i hit the muddy, dirt-bike ravaged part. then there were the 7000 puddles i had to detour around… okay, not my favorite hike. but not terrible. […]
