East Honolulu Waterfalls

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East Honolulu Waterfalls - November 26, 2017

With rain in the forecast, we decided to hike the lesser known Ka'au Crater Right Fork. This is also known as the East Honolulu Waterfalls. Only Darren and Aprille have done this hike before, so most of us didn't know what to expect. 

Darren invited Ryan, he only told us the day of, so we were someone surprised, but it made sense since Ryan has scouted it and have taken a number of groups up. Darren felt sick when he woke up, so he bailed in the morning. We were trying to figure out if we would like to do the back up. In the end it was on towards Palolo to do the East Honolulu Waterfalls. 

Joining the hike today would be Ryan, Erik, Aprille, Bernice and Ryan's friend Matt. We started around 7:15am. The hike to the first waterfall was someone slow about 1 1/2 hours. We took a break there, and then headed up to the second waterfall. It was really windy today. It was cold AF. 

Going up to the third waterfall was quick and we quickly took the right fork and headed up stream. The series of waterfalls started. There were some small ones, but eventually we hit a 15 footer. Ryan free climbed and dropped the webbing down for us. 

Aprille climbing up 15 footer

Waterfall after waterfall, it got colder and colder. Adrenaline hit, it was good climbing. I remember on one of the falls, we hit a multi-tier one and it topped out at an infinity pool. That was cool. 

We went up some short waterfalls and some tall ones. A few needed webbing. It took us about 4 hours to get to the summit a.k.a. Lanipo Gap. It was so windy, like 50 mph winds. It was so cold as well. I put my poncho over my shirt and put my jacket over my poncho for warmth. It didn't rain too much. I was pleasantly surprise. 

Bernice beasting up this one

This one was slippery, the uki grass helped



The crossover was short about 25 minutes until we hit the top of Ka'au Crater. Going down would be another 2 hours. We chose to go down the crater rim and exit through the bailout that led to the valley. We finished the hike at about 3:30pm. 

almost at summit

view at top

Bernice had to go. Post hike meal was at Pioneer Saloon. Sounds like a cowboy bar, but they serve a lot of local favorites. I was still cold. To top it all off we ate ice cream at Banan. That made me more colder. 

Photo Matt

Facemous Photo taken by Ryan

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