Hiking Trails on Oahu

Video from Erik  Laie 18 - March 4, 2017 After 5 years, I got to do Laie 18 again. Baron considers this hike his baby and has taken over hundreds of hikers on this hike. He has led many groups up these waterfalls. With rain pounding the island all week, it was time to do Laie 18!!!  I made sure I had spikes for this one since the last time I didn't have spikes. Darren picked me up at my house at about 6:45am. We went to Erik's house to pick him up and Darren shuttled us over to Laie. There we met the hikers for the day. The turn out was 12 strong and impressive hikers starting with Baron, Denise, Jena, Justin, James, Ryan, Kellie, and then the OAGs Erik, Bernice, Darren, Jana, and I.  Ryan led a furious charge up Laie. We hit the cook pines in 1 hour. Baron found the ridge going down to the hau tangle. Going down, it appeared only pig trails or not even. However, it was fast and we got to the hau tangle in about 20 minutes. We progressed through the hau and eventually got...

Pu'u Manamana - May 28, 2016 We did a variation of this hike 5 years ago called Kahekili-Manamana, we eventually got to the 1900' Lookout. The hike we did today is in Stuart Ball's book called Pu'u Manamana. For this hike, you don't get to Pu'u Manamana, rather you get to Turnover and have the option to get to True Manamana, but that wouldn't happen today.  It was only Erik and I, we decided to do Pu'u Kaua, but when we got there a security truck was waiting at the entry gate. Discourage and not wanting to take a risk, we left. We had to choose a hike to go on since Plan A was off. Two options we considered was Pu'u Manamana and Kaena Point to Pu'u Pueo.  We chose Pu'u Manamana. We wanted to go up Cemetery Ridge get to Turnover and go down Manamana Ridge. We thought it would take 4 hours but... We parked on Trout Farm Road and had some trouble finding the trailhead. Erik texted Baron for trailhead directions, he said the trail starts behind t...

Laie-Malaekahana - February 13, 2016 It's February 2016 and this is my first hike of the year. With Jared's baseball and Malia's dance, weekends have been busy. I was invited by Kikaida (Kenji) to Laie-Malaekahana. He hasn't done it before and wanted to check it off the list. He invited his usual hiking partners and I invited Bernice from OAG's. Start time was at 7am. I got there 5 minutes late because I had to go to the bathroom. The only bathroom before Laie field that I know of is Malaekahana Beach Park. I stopped there to pee, then headed off to Laie field. I was the last one there and met the crew for the day. Joining us was Kenji, Glen, Justin, Thessa, Dale, Bernice, and I. We started at 9:10am on the Laie trail.  Since I haven't hiked in a while, my cardio was weak. I could run uphills with no problem, but try hike uphills when your not in hiking shape, its a difficult thing to do. After 2.5 hours, Bernice, Dale, Thessa, Glen and I got to the foxhole of L...