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Before heading back home to Vegas, we (Luke and I) made a trip down to Antelope Canyon since it was only a few hours away from Zion National Park. We almost bailed out on the idea since we saw so many slot canyons in Utah already… but I’m glad we didn’t. Antelope Canyon is located […]

Since we (Baron Yamamoto and I) had recently completed the section north of Puu Kaua (to Puu Kanehoa), it was only fitting that we head south to complete another section of the Waianae Summit that had been eluding us for some time. Descending from Puu Kaua to Pohakea Pass was not too difficult, however, ascending […]

Puu Kaua and it’s “Gorilla heads,” or gnarly teeth-like features have been eluding us (Baron Yamamoto and I) for almost a year now… as we failed to summit Kaua and traverse the teeth from both the northern (Kanehoa) and southern (Palikea) directions some time ago, but after reading Kaleo Lancaster’s write-up of a well-planned out, […]

After a failed attempt to reach the summit of Puu Kaua from the Kolekole Pass this past summer, Baron Yamamoto and I had a personal vendetta to reach the summit from an alternative route. Therefore today, we considered coming from the “Palikea direction” along the Waianae Summit Trail (WST). Along the Waianae Summit, we found […]

A long one, but bear with me on this… I’m trying detail some bad and unsafe hiking habits so that others can learn from our mistakes this day… On a typical day, Puu Hapapa Ridge Trail is a pretty awesome trail (Photo: 04/2011). On Scholfield Barracks in Wahiawa, you drive up to the apex of […]