Hiking Trails on Oahu

True Kea'au - September 1, 2014 (Labor Day) I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Since I've been focusing on marathon training, hiking and even doing research for hikes have gone by the waste side. Will L. usually hikes on holidays, probably something him and his wife worked out a while back. I know I can only hike twice and month and get frowned upon by my wife if I go back to back weekends, so I completely understand the married couple hiking thing. I've done Kea'au Middle twice, one time I even connected to Ohikilolo. But I haven't done True Kea'au. I got word of a route a few years ago from hiking icon Baron Y., but I didn't pay too much attention to him. On that hike he took Darren and Ahnate on the switchback trail. Before the hike, like weeks ago doing Kawiwi, Darren shared some info on the True Kea'au route with me which I apparently didn't listen too carefully. I remember telling him that looks ridiculously steep and I would never d...

Kawiwi to Tiki - August 15, 2014 Today was my second time doing Kawiwi and it was with the "overnight crew" minus Aprille. Last time we hiked together, we had to spend the night on the Waimalu Ridge trail. Hopefully today would yield better results...it did. With Sarah leaving in a few weeks back to college in the mainland, the OAG's needed to do a hike. Recently, choosing a group hike has been difficult. Our group has hikers with varying skills and abilities making it harder to choose certain hikes. Long story short, we chose to do Mt. Ka'ala in Waianae. The plan was simple, meet at Waianae Valley Road at 7:45am, go up Ka'ala, and go back. I picked up Darren at 7:00am and got to the trailhead at 7:50am. It seems like it takes longer and longer to get to Waianae from Mililani. Erik and Bernice got there at 7:48am. And Sarah, lets just say she got there at Hawaiian Time. As we got ready, Darren was eyeing Pu'u Kawiwi. We came across two University of Hawaii res...