Hiking Trails on Oahu

Waikiki Trail – March 23, 2013   This was all meant to be a humorous act. I joked to my hiking friends that I would hike the Waikiki trail. I told them, I would prepare for it like any other hike. I got some chuckles. As I planned my route, I was surprised to see that there was in fact an actual trail. The route is labeled by 21 markers (23 I would come to find out). This gave me a sense of purpose for hiking it. In addition, I love to play tourist in my hometown. I believe that not only does it create a fun escape for oneself, but provides a deeper understanding of what visiting this island is all about, which in turn creates more of an internal appreciation for what we have here on Oahu. I did a three day adventure in Waikiki. Joining me on the first day was my wife (more of a lunch date), day two was the family (the bulk of the makers), day three was hiking partner Marvin (just to finish up the trail).   I digress, The Historic Waikiki Trail as it’s called was created by Ha...

  Diamond Head Rim – May 5, 2012 With the new creation of a route up Diamond Head, the hiking community has been going in droids around the rim of the crater. With Ikaika and Marvin circumnavigating the crater last week, it was now our turn. Marvin was suppose to lead us on this hike, but he came down with a cold, so it was all us DH newbies attempting to go around the rim. Waikiki Sunset We met at Kapiolani Park at around 6p. The crew today was Aida, Steve, Stephen, Kim (his wife) and I. Three of us are in 7D. We parked in a lot near the small park adjacent to Kapiolani Park and on foot went up a street to a board of water supply station. There was barbed wire fence, but we took a route near a house. To do that, we climbed on a concrete wall where the gate was opened and bushwhacked until we found an obvious trail. graffiti'd stone Looks intimidating The ridge up the mountain looked intimidating. It looked undoable from our vantage point. We followed the ridge and got to the ...