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Not So Great Hiking Blog: Pu'u Kalena
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. Friday, April 15, 2011. They'd never let you on Hickam or Pearl this way. Don't loose your head. Translation: Good times ahead! THIS is the Kalena Trail Head. I guess this is it. Here's where the route becomes clear. Looking across the saddle to Kalena. Continuing down we had to negotiate a large fallen tree across the trail. Near the bottom we passe...
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Not So Great Hiking Blog: KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. Terminus, Bowman Trail. As any of the sections of the Ko'olau Summit NOT associated with the actual Ko'olau Summit Trail (KST). Constructed in the early part of the 1900's from Pupukea to Kipapa. I haven't gotten around to it but I'm going to eventually create a separate page for the KST. Aloha and mahalo for visiting,.
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Not So Great Hiking Blog: April 2012
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. Thursday, April 12, 2012. KST- Pauao to Castle. April 3, 2012. After a grueling midnight shift had not quenched my desire to do some hiking and the week long trek of the entire Ko'olau crest by super hiker Chase Norton also provided some motivation to get off my rear end despite all the overtime I'd been working. The initial road walk was fairly uneventf...
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Not So Great Hiking Blog: March 2013
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. Saturday, March 16, 2013. A Not So Great Ending. I'll leave with this final thought. O'ahu is probably the most amazing place on earth. The deeper you dig the more if offers up. There truly isn't a better place to call home. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). All of the information presented here should NOT BE RELIED ON. Koloa Gulch Left and Right Forks. Anothe...
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Not So Great Hiking Blog: December 2012
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. Thursday, December 20, 2012. December 19, 2012. After some more email exchanges a date was set and I learned that fellow blogger Andrew of Punyari's Island Adventures. Was also trying to get access. He ended up joining our group for this hard to get to but easy trail. We walked the boulder lined trail buffeted by the strong winds and passed through the i...
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Not So Great Hiking Blog: Pu'u Ma'el'ieli Trail
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. Tuesday, December 6, 2011. After last week's brutal trek on the Ko'olau Summit Trail I needed something easy. Amazingly my knees recovered fairly quickly with some Advil and although they're certainly not better, a little exercise was in order. For directions and a route description. The road dipped sharply down and the stiffly up. Despite the high o...
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Not So Great Hiking Blog: October 2012
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. Monday, October 15, 2012. KST- Pupukea to La'ie via Kawailoa Trail. Construction on the Kawailoa Trail was start ed in Ma rch of 1934. By Civilian Conservation Corps by Sept ember or October of the same year. Later. About two miles of the lower trail were lost or. Heading up the road past the Boy Scout Camp. I jumped the gate and began the descent down i...
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Not So Great Hiking Blog: Ma'akua Gulch
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. Tuesday, January 24, 2012. January 24, 2012. Having driven all the way out to to Punalu'u we didn't want to head back so I started mulling over trail options in my head and after dismissing a few I'd already done we settled on Ma'akua (Towards the gods? I knew from my previous trip up Papali to Castle. Near the trail head and in some ironwood trees were ...
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Not So Great Hiking Blog: KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail
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Not So Great Hiking Blog. A not-so-great blog about hiking on O'ahu by a not-so-great hiker. KSRT- Koolau Summit Ridge Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. KST- Ko'olau Summit Trail. For more history of the construction of his amazing network of trails Stuart Ball's latest book "Native Paths to Volunteer Trails- Hiking and Trail Building on O'ahu" is the hands down best source. Ko'olau Summit Trail Segments. Pupukea to La'ie via Kawailoa Trail. Papali Uka to Castle Trail. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Again, ...