Walk around Oahu (Mapunapuna to Waipahu)

January 5, 2025

Met up with Aida, Akira, Chico, David, Ferlino, Mari, Roger, Rose, Susan, Tessa, and Val to do our first hike (walk) of the year. The dirty dozen, well not today. Group photo as we left the industrial area that is prone to flooding during high tides and parts of the land has already sunk 4-5 […]

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Pu’u Ka’ala to Kolekole Pass

December 29, 2024

A friend got sick and was unable to complete the KST this weekend, so Eric and I did a hike on the West side instead. Thanks to Chico and Groot for dropping us off in the area that was once dominated by sugar and cattle plantations from roughly 1906-1946. We passed some hunters who when […]

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Poamoho to Pupukea Road

December 21, 2024

It was our second attempt with the same crew for the same trail. The first one was aborted due to severe weather. This time around was different. We would finish, come hell or high water or mud. Mahalo to Edgar for driving Aida, Jeremy, Roger and myself up the jeep road for our hike today. […]

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Pohakea Pass to Palehua

December 15, 2024

It was time for a certain individual to tackle one of her biggest challenges in the mountains to date, with a little help from her friends today. Somebody had time to snap a picture of the fiery sunrise over Ke Awa Lau O Pu’uloa (Pearl Harbor) and Le’ahi (Diamond Head). We all met up, eventually, […]

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12 Days of Christmas

December 8, 2024

It seems to have fallen out of favor to celebrate Christmas on the hardest hike on the island, so we decided to do our interpretation of the island classic of the song written by Eaton “Bob” Magoon, Ed Kenney and Gordon Phelps in 1959. Numbah one day of Christmas My Unko gave to me One […]

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Protected: Poamoho to Manana (High High’s Finish)

November 29, 2024

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Kolekole Pass to Kaua

November 24, 2024

I decided to cut today’s hike in half as I didn’t feel like hiking in the dark. Been there. Done that. Thank you very much. Thanks to Matt for dropping us off despite the gate not being open at the advertised time. Jeremy called Range Control and they came to open the gate for us. […]

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Walk around Oahu (Dillingham Fountain to Mapunapuna)

November 17, 2024

Met up with the group at the still non-functioning Dillingham Fountain to start our third perimeter hike around the island. Group photo in front of Elks Lodge 616. This fraternal organization was first called Jolly Corks when it was founded in 1868 and now has more than 750,000 members at 1,928 lodges. We walked up […]

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Halalai’i and Pu’unaue Trail

November 10, 2024

The original plan was to have camped in the crater for the weekend but we changed it to a day hike instead. We woke up, somebody had their hair braided, didn’t know we had a hairdresser in the house and checked out of our airbnb. Driving into the national park that was created in 1961. […]

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Maui Holoholo 2024

November 9, 2024

Plans changed. From backpacking in Haleakala to a hybrid mix of sorts. All fun in the end. Chico, Ferlino, Mari, Sandra and myself flew over to the airport that was first built in 1942 as a naval air station. Catching the blinding sunrise on the Valley Isle. Where is Ferlino? One of these is not […]

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