Hiker's Returning the Favor
Nanakuli Valley – December 28, 2012 Raquel has a friend who is part owners of the Nanakuli Ranch. Earlier in the week, she contacted her friend to see if we could hike the trails back there. This looked like a good opportunity for us to hike in Nanakuli Valley, a valley which not too many people explore. We met at Kapolei Rec. Center at 8 am, and then drove to the Nanakuli Ranch. There were a total of 19 people on this hike, 7 adults and 12 kids. We met the owner, she was really nice. From the parking area, was an obvious jeep road. Along the road, we saw a goat skull, the kids were scared at first, but once they realize that the skull wouldn’t attack them, they became enamored with the skull. The jeep road split and we took a wrong turn and ended up near someone’s backyard, so we backtracked and took the other fork. kids photo pointing at skull another kids photo The jeep road starts to climb up a ridge. All of a sudden, there was a herd of cows. At least 30 cows on the trail righ...