auntie | August 16, 2015
5.26 miles; west greenwich, ri this was a providence county hiking club hike that almost got off on the wrong foot. we were supposed to meet at the “hell’s gate” trailhead on plain meetinghouse road. at the last minute, the hike leader let us know that the address was (natch) 666 plain meetinghouse road. unfortunately, […]
auntie | August 1, 2015
7.69 miles; coventry and west greenwich, ri the weather this past week has been just AWFUL for hiking—hot, humid, and very buggy. but we (the providence county hiking club) persevered, and have now officially passed the halfway mark on the north-south trail. i know i posted this photo a month ago, but this time it’s […]
auntie | July 29, 2015
11.16 miles; west greenwich, ri as i’ve told a few close friends anyone who stands still long enough to listen, i am planning a hiking trip to ireland this september. it will be an 8-day self-guided hike on the kerry way hiking trail, which closely follows the famous “ring of kerry” road. the best part is that i […]
auntie | July 6, 2015
4.5 miles; west greenwich, ri well this is embarrassing—i thought i was hiking today with the Providence County Hiking Club, but i was actually hiking with a new (to me) facebook hiking group, Take a Hike. awesome bunch of people and very well-attended; there were about 15 of us. it was a fairly modest hike in […]
auntie | May 4, 2015
6.2 miles; west greenwich, ri i originally intended to do the longest hike possible on this property by hiking all the perimeter trails, including wickaboxet. unfortunately, i was overdressed, because it was a very hot day in the still-leafless woods. also, i had a full 2-liter platypus which i quickly determined would not be enough […]
auntie | January 14, 2015
4.18 miles; west greenwich, ri cold today… although i think it was actually a few degrees warmer than yesterday, it felt worse because there was no sun. my “usual suspect” friends and i hiked tillinghast pond, or at least, we hiked the coney brook loop and the pond trail. the trail surface was kind of […]
