Finding the Maunawili Ditch Trail in Waimanalo

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Maunawili Ditch – May 26, 2013

 

Today was an exploration hike. I wanted to do the Maunawili Ditch trail. I knew a few things; 1) it was near the Demonstration trail 2) it was nearly 3 miles long. What I didn’t know, 1) where did it lead to? 2) could I connect to another trail?

 

Joining me on the hike today was my son Jared. He is a really good hiker, but has been consumed with the gaming bug, and spends his time playing his Mindcraft game. To get him out of the house, I decided to force him to come along.



 
The goal was to go on the Ditch trail and see if I could connect to another trail to loop it. However, as we started hiking, I realize that wasn’t going to happen on this day. Jared wasn’t feeling it. I decided to tell him to hike 1.5 miles instead of the 3. My goal changed to just finding the ditch. There we were, in the middle of Waimanalo, trying to find a ditch. Birds were singing, motor bikes revving, dogs were barking, cars were driving, and trees were rustling. Jared became paranoid at every little noise, but I assured him that we were going to be okay.

on the ditch trail

 

As we hiked, I noticed a bunch of gulches that appeared to look like ditches, but they weren’t. Disappointed, we hiked back. At the trailhead, I noticed the ditch. Not sure if it was the ditch, but in my mind, it should have been.

 
After today, I need to do the following, 1) get the track to the demo trail to see where we were on 2) upload the falls trail to see how close we were.

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