Hiking Trails on Oahu

Makapu'u Ridge - June 8, 2017 Aprille wanted to hike. She was going to take her friend Anna with her. Also Clayton wanted to hike with Aprille. They decided on an easy hike, one that is a good meet and greet. Hence, Makapu'u Ridge.  Aprille picked me up in Mililani and drove us to Makapu'u. It was about 8:30am. Not wanting to hang out at the parking lot, Aprille, Anna, and I proceeded to go up the ridge and not get seen by some phantom guard who would turn us away. I had to take a piss badly. We got up to where we couldn't be seen from the parking lot. I jumped into some koa haole trees to empty out.  We continued on the ridge at a slow pace waiting for Clayton. We saw him coming up from the parking lot or what seemed to look like him.  pic of Rabbit Island  We finally met up at the crest of the ridge. He brought his friend Nimai, I think that was his name. The goal today was to get to the puka. It was good to talk story with everyone.  We saw a group at the puk...

  Makapu’u Ridge to Puka - December 29, 2013 This hike was a birthday celebration for Marcus Greigo. Marcus is a hiker in the Oahu Hiking Community known for doing some of the most ‘extreme’ hikes on the island. If you read my entries, I really don’t know the true meaning of extreme, so I call a very hard hike, a difficult hike. Regardless on your interpretation of the word extreme, this hike I was about to go on had some bad ass hikers, people who’ve completed the entire crest of the Ko’olau Summit and some of Oahu’s most dangerous ridges. I’ve hiked with a lot of these people before and let me tell you, they bad ass. I picked up Darren from Mililani and we headed off towards Makapu’u. Near the University cut off, my tire blew out. I panicked a little, but we methodically got the spare and put it on. However, while driving, the spare was flat, the car started to shake since the car was running on 3 tires, so I drove to a gas station nearby to fill air. Luckily Darren knew where th...