Hell Hollow North and Pharisee Rock Trail

| July 15, 2015

Hell Hollow North and Pharisee Rock Trail

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 […]

Narragansett Trail, Green Fall Gorge

| May 27, 2015

4 miles; voluntown, ct i did a quick visit today to my local section of the narragansett trail. i had an appointment right afterward, so i had to hustle, but it was still a lovely day to be in the woods. there’s water flowing over the dam at green fall pond, though not a lot, […]

Hodge Pond South

| April 8, 2015

Hodge Pond South

4.25 miles; voluntown, ct every now and again i get a real hankering to re-visit a hike (and isn’t that a grand word, “hankering?”). i’ve been thinking about this hike for a while, and today i managed to get there. it has a lot of really interesting features, and despite the fact that this part of […]

Green Fall Gorge

| January 20, 2015

Green Fall Gorge

3.7 miles; voluntown, ct this was a nice short, local hike, since, as usual, i have a zillion things to do today. the gorge was surprisingly ice-free. the green fall river was chugging along nicely, though, making the river crossing “interesting.” in fact, the only major ice i encountered was at the base of the […]

Pachaug SF, Gallup Road Loop

| January 1, 2015

Pachaug SF, Gallup Road Loop

2.81 miles; voluntown, ct not a great start to 2015. i just couldn’t motivate, till the hubs dragged me out to do a quick ramble in the pachaug state forest, near green falls pond. on the plus side, i got to hike another small section of the cpfa trails i hadn’t hiked before, the orange + […]

A Pachaug State Forest Ramble

| December 14, 2014

A Pachaug State Forest Ramble

3.45 miles; voluntown, ct maybe once a year, the hubs actually hikes with me, instead of ahead of me. this was one of those rare hikes. he likes to take long walks through the pachaug state forest, just wandering aimlessly and checking out roads and paths that look interesting. he offered to show me one trip he […]