An Unmapped Route: A Hiker's Blog

Tag: landscapes

  • The Sakonnet Point Light

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    In the past, we’d pull on the riding boots and leathers, steering the motorcycles out towards Little Compton. It’s open spaces are sprinkled with farm stands that the local growers sell apples and produce to the families that live out here past the noisy cities of Fall River and Newport. In the fall, it’s squash…

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    snowpackjack
    Sakonnet Point Lighthouse- a white sparkplug lighthouse with clouds and blue sky in the background

  • The Castle Hill Light

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    In the past, you could park in the little lot next to the Coast Guard Station. It was paved in crushed clam shells, a common practice in shore side towns in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, or Cape Cod and the Islands. The lighthouse is surrounded by private property, but if you’re still allowed to park,…

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    snowpackjack
    A white granite lighthouse nestled in shore ledge by a blue sea. The red warning beacon can be seen in the lighthouse tower. waves crash on the rocks below the lighthouse with white spray.

  • Off-Hike Weekends

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    I’m an addicted peak bagger living in southern New England. Since much of Rhode Island and Connecticut is flat as a pancake, most of my hiking takes me out of town. I can’t travel every weekend, and just hiking would make Jack a dull boy. In the early 70’s Rhode Island dubbed itself “The Ocean…

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    snowpackjack
    A black and white image of a Nun buoy under a cloudy sky in a waterway.