auntie | June 6, 2016
3-3/4 miles; Exeter and West Greenwich, RI This hike started out normally enough until, about 1/4 mile in, I run into “Nature Boy,” out for a nude hike. How do I find these people? First it was the couple making the beast with 2 backs on the Ayers Gap trail, then the girl taking a […]
auntie | April 14, 2016
4 miles; West Greenwich, RI Ah, Big River… what can I say? It’s a massive chunk of open space that was originally taken by the state using eminent domain in order to build a reservoir, and then the reservoir never got made. See this article in the Providence Journal to see how poignant a story it still […]
auntie | March 6, 2016
3 miles; West Greenwich, RI So in spite of the blister, I decided to soldier on. I poked a hole in the bottom to drain it, then put antibiotic cream on it, and a sterile bandage designed specifically to protect blisters, AND covered that with some moleskin. Did that work? Yeah—no. Not at all. I […]
auntie | December 25, 2015
3.5 miles; West Greenwich, RI merry christmas to all my readers, by the way. i hope it was just as good as your expectations. hm, that could be either good or bad, actually… this is both a new and new-to-me trail at tillinghast. very pretty. it goes through some interesting spots, including the old bates homestead […]
auntie | September 3, 2015
5.7 miles; west greenwich, ri ha! finally caught up with my blog posts. sorry for the recent spate of back-dated posts. things just got away from me, and i wanted to get current before i left for ireland. um, have i mentioned i’m going hiking in ireland? i don’t remember—feels like i might have. anyways… […]
auntie | August 22, 2015
8.22 miles; west greenwich and exeter, ri after so many miles of road-walking, this leg was mostly in arcadia management area, and mostly in the woods. yay! it started on hazard road in west greenwich, then entered arcadia through the overgrown parking lot of the old pine top ski area on escoheag hill. from there […]
