Kealia to Ka’ala Road

June 1, 2014

Good weather beckoned us back to the mountains. The Waianae Mountains. We picked up where we left off from last time. Photo by Steve Lin. Jame’s wife was nice enough to drop our group off at the Kealia trailhead. A dog even greeted us as we got ready and then bounded off to her master […]

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Ehukai Bunkers (Pillboxes)

May 26, 2014

Holidays are nice. No work. No school. For most people. Lucky us. Mari and I made the long drive out to the North Shore to do an easy hike. The trailhead was not marked but we easily located it to the left of the gate that separated the parking lots of Sunset Beach Elementary School […]

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Moanalua Saddle to Red Hill

May 10, 2014

My journey to traverse the Ko’olau Mountain Range began with a saddle and fittingly ended with another saddle today. I had no intentions of completing the entire Ko’olau Mountain Range when I first started hiking, it was just to get out and hit the trails. That all changed after one of our hikes, when the […]

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Kahuauli (Bowman) to Kalihi Saddle

May 3, 2014

Back in the saddle again. A heavy soaking the day before had actually aborted our saddle hike. However, after going all over the board with alternate hikes to do, we ended up doing the saddle anyway. The skies were clear, so despite the weather sometimes changing on a dime up in the mountains, we decided […]

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Manana to Waimalu

April 19, 2014

Despite rainy weather predictions, just a day earlier they were forecasting mostly sunny skies, I decided to return back to the Ko’olau Mountains. A crew of six joined me in the wee hours at Manana trailhead. No pig hunters and dogs were in sight. They must have hit the trail early. No cardiac hill and […]

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Pu’u Heleakala

April 12, 2014

Rain kept me off the mountains. Again. Plan B. Despite assurances from a hunter at the Manana trailhead, that it only rains in the morning, we all piled into Jose’s car and drove to the West side looking for a dry trail to hike. We soon found ourselves roughly two miles deep on Lualualei Naval […]

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Manana to Waiahole Uka

April 6, 2014

Back on the mountains again. The Ko’olau Mountains. The weather seemed to be cooperating this time around; so I met Chris, Jose and Ryan at the Manana trailhead tucked deep in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood. We had company at the gate. Hunters with dogs. We passed after exchanging pleasantries and assurances that the dogs were […]

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Waipuilani Falls

March 29, 2014

Another week of rain kept me off the mountains again. That is why I found myself in the Pali lookout with Chris, Jose and Thessa to go waterfall hunting. Waipuilani Falls to be exact. Thanks to Ryan for the idea, who unfortunately had to go to work instead of playing in the forest. One of […]

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Spartan Sprint Race 2014

March 23, 2014

Having done Warrior Dash and Makahiki Challenge last year, I was not too impressed with the obstacles. They were both fun, but not that challenging. I heard the Spartan Race was different and tougher. When Chris put out the call to join his team for the Spartan race, I decided to see if the course […]

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Koholepelepe ( Koko Crater )

March 22, 2014

I joined Will and Chris on a slightly different route up Koholepelepe or Koko Crater Rim today. Instead of starting from the end of the rim, we were going to take a “shortcut” and go up from the spur ridge that was inside the crater. The spur ridge is quite noticeable once you look for […]

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