Hiking Trails on Oahu

Kaena Point - February 28, 2014 I had a chance to chaperone the field trip to Kaena Point again. This is our 2nd annual hike to Kaena Point sponsored by a grant Ed wrote. Today the plan was to take 87 Pearl City High School students (freshman thru seniors) up to Kaena Point. The goal was to educated the students on the preserve and even do some community work like pull weeds and plan Ohai trees. I always thought that a good plan makes a field trip run well, but the kids dictate what kind of field trip its going to be. If you have bad kids, the field trip will be shitty and vice versa. Most of the kids we had were good kids, none of the kids I teach, but good kids nonetheless. scared of mud We started hiking on the Waianae side of the trail and made our way to the fence. There, we met Michelle who works for DLNR. She gave us a long informative lecture on Kaena point. After the fence, we made our way to the section where we would pull weeds and plant Ohai trees. The funny part was seeing...

Illuminated Kalauao Falls - February 21, 2014 It’s been about 6 months since our last illumination hike. Back then, we did Waimano falls in the summer. It sparked our interest on long exposures using glow sticks. Today we decided to do it again, this time in Aiea.   This week has been exhausting for me. I guess its that time of the year where most teachers hit the wall. Joining the hike today were most OAG members; Erik, Darren, Daniel, Aprille, David, and Allison. Because Aprille and Darren would come late, we decided to have two start times. We met each other at Aiea Bowl and Erik drove us to the water tank area on Aiea Heights Drive. From there we proceeded to the hairpin turn to start the Kalauao trail. Erik marked the trail with pink ribbon and glow sticks which we would remove when going out. This trail takes you straight to the ridge and the mango tree. It was getting dark really fast, but we took our time, even though that would mean setting up our equipment in the dark. As...

Poamoho - April 19, 2014 I had another opportunity to go on what true hiker’s consider the best hike on the island. After hiking avidly for 4 years now, I consider Poamoho to be the best hike on the island of Oahu. There is no other hike on the island that offers a better hiking experience than Poamoho. This hike was previously scheduled on February 15th, but due to weather it was rescheduled for today. We had 26 people sign up for this event as ‘eldest HTMC member’ Fred Boll took on major responsibility in coordinating this hike. I picked up Erik at 7am to drive to the trailhead. Upon arriving at his house, I thought to myself, kinda early. As I picked Erik up, he text Daniel to see what the meet up time was ~ 8:30am. Hoah crap, so we cruised at Zippy’s and talked major story about completing the original KST ~ Pupukea to Kipapa.   As we drove to the trailhead, 50% of OAG’s were in attendance, David, Daniel, Erik, Allison and I. Also notables were Jay, Nate Y., Alaina, Nate L., Pa...