| DATE: | March 15, 1997 | WEATHER: | sunny, slight overcast, very hot | HIKERS: | Joshua Haley, Corey Nakayama, Grant Tokumi, Denise Karimoto |
| Commentary by Joshua Haley |
About an hour into the hike, you can see switchbacks in the valley to
the left. (really hard to see in this photo.)
Dayle Turner adds:
Its an overgrown jeep road. There used to be a rock quarry at the back of
the valley in the 60s and the road, now choked by California grass that is
over my head in height, was used to access it.
When we reached the main Koolau ridge, we looked up it and saw some goats!
No joke! They were just cruising around up this side here.
Here, we were headed towards the "off-limits" area near the intersection
of Kamehame ridge and the Koolau ridge we were standing on. Little did we
know that in the foggy distance was an apparrent dead-end. The first path
we took led us to a steep cliff with nowhere to go but down (and fast).
After back-tracking a bit, we tried plan 'B', a parallel ridge to the one
we were just on. This one seemed to connect a bit smoother to the ridge we
wanted to go to. When we got there, we noticed that we were basically
wrong. We could have tried to "Rambo" our way around it, but daylight was
running out and too many things were unknown. (Plus we wanted to make
sure we could make it back home in time to go see the premiere of
Return of the Jedi! Heh heh). So we decided to go back home the
way we came.
On the way back, Grant was able to get this nice mini-panorama of
Kamiloiki valley (left), Kamehame Ridge (above the valley at left), Sandy
Beach (small kine, at the end of Kamehame ridge), Koko Crater (center) and
Koko Head (immediate right of Koko Crater) and the rest of Hawaii Kai,
including Koko Marina.
Josh stops for a pose with about an hour and a half left to go.
Grant gives Josh the camera and makes "A".
This is the starting (and finishing) point of the hike: a heiau at the
end of the ridge. Nice one, too.
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