Hiking Camp Smith in Halawa Heights

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Camp Smith Trail (Halawa Heights) - June 28, 2015


Aprille invited the OAG's to the Camp Smith-Halawa Trail. Both Erik & Aprille said they've done it before and said it wouldn't take too long. I didn't know what to expect and I had Jared's game at 2:30pm, so I couldn't be out hiking all day and my plan was to bail if the hike was taking too long.  

We met at the end of Palaialii Place at 9:30am. Joining the hike today was an all OAG crew ~ Erik, Darren, Aprille, DJ, and Bernice. We started hiking for about 5 minutes and hit a junction which took us to another trail. Darren said, we on Aiea Loop. After further inspection he was right. We were on the Aiea Loop trail. Erik thought it was anti-climatic as he thought it was a continuation of the Camp Smith trail. After some reflection, I can see why people who hike Aiea Loop mistakenly get to Camp Smith by accident. 

Group photo at Palaialii Place (P.C. DJ)

There is a money view of H3 on the Camp Smith trail from the powerlines. We hung out for a bit and decided to back track and try find the Aiea plane wreckage. When we got there, only Erik went down to take pictures of the plane wreckage as it started to pour cats and dogs and the trail going down towards the plan wreckage became slippery. After a short stay, we went back to the powerlines. Erik called Daniel to see when he was ready for the PHM. Low and behold, Erik claims that when Daniel called him on his cell phone, Daniel was passing the area where we could see H3. Erik claims he saw Daniel's car on H3. I can't believe that! 

view of H3 and us with lychee Erik gave from his tree (P.C. DJ)

The hike out was fast, we saw a fire shelter, which was pretty cool. The PHM was at Shiro's as it usually is in the Aiea area. We had good fun catching up. We haven't seen each other in a while. 

Group photo at Shiro's (P.C. DJ)

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