Kalihi Ice Ponds Hike
Ice Ponds of Kalihi Valley - June 13, 2011 I was reading Joshua blog 808 Goonies yesterday and stumbled upon a secret trail that led to cascading waterfalls. Wow very impressive. Its called the Ice Ponds. Why Ice Ponds? Its not frozen. Two local stories exist. 1) Its a place of gathering for tweakers smoking Ice (Crystal Meth), not too appealing. 2) The stream is cold as ice. I guess the urban legend yields many stories. On this day I went with my wife Michelle. The initial plan was to only take her out to lunch, but I threw in a hike because of my recent addiction. Though she resisted, I persuaded her enough to at least come along. We headed toward Kalihi Street at 9:30 am. I had no specific directions, but a source on the internet provided some coordinates to the Ice Ponds. The night before, I inputted the coordinates into google map and a location popped up. With that to work on, we headed deep into the valley. We parked near the end of Kalihi Street a little ...