Hiking Trails on Oahu

  Wailua River Kayak and hike to Uluwehi Falls - October 11, 2016 16 years ago Michelle and I did this kayaking adventure up the Wailua river to a Secret Waterfall. Michelle always gives me a hard time about it as she said I never did any paddling and just sat back and did nothing. That is not entirely true, I think I just needed a break or something.  This time we would take the kids on the adventure up the Wailua river. Jared was scared and got nervous saying, "how dangerous is it?". We assured him that it would be okay.  Apparently back then it was a free for all and companies were letting a lot of people go into the river. This led to problems. Now days, people cannot kayak the river on Sundays and companies are limited to the amount of canoes they can rent out per day. Companies suggest that you do a guided tour which is 3x the price of the rental.  Anyway, we weren't going to do that shit. Nobody is going to guide us anywhere, we were going to do it on our own....

Koloa Gulch – May 28, 2013   I’ve wanted to do this hike for so long. But after today, it becomes a storied hike. Oahu was on a flash flood advisory early this morning, but the weather services canceled it at 7:15am. Great right! Not really.   I woke up at my normal time and drove to Laie at about 6:15am. I figured that getting to H3 would mean traffic, so I went the Wahiawa way. Good thing I did as there was an accident on H3. The drive towards the North Shore was long. Note to self (again), the drive to North Shore appears to be longer. It took over 1 hour to get to Laie. The meeting place as always for Kaipapa’u and Koloa hikes was at Kokololio Beach Park. We all said our hellos, meeting up for the hike today were OAG members Erik, Daniel, me, Aprille (who just got in from Seattle the previous night). Darren’s friend Kristy, Sarah, and John.     From the beach park, we headed north on Kamehameha and made a left on a dirt road through some farmlands....

  Mount Olympus (Awa'awaloa) via Wa'ahila Ridge Trail - June 4, 2011 Mount Olympus is the highest peak in Manoa. Its Hawaiian name is Awa'awaloa, but some years ago, students at Punahou renamed it Olympus. The name stuck and its also on listed as Olympus on Hawaii maps. I wanted to do this hike yesterday, but with a flash flood in effect for Oahu, that was out of the question. So I decided to do it today, which after much reflection was still a mistake. Lets just say climbing a steep mountain one day after a downpour isn't the right thing to do because you know, slippery mud.   I headed towards St. Louis Heights Drive at 8:30 am. After turning on a couple of side streets, I ended up at Wa'ahila Ridge State Park. I remember doing the first 30 minutes of this hike with the kids a couple of years ago and they had trouble, so we turned around. The lower Wa'ahila Ridge Trail claims to be a novice hike because there is little elevation gain. However, there is rock cli...