Driving up the Leeward Coast | Hiking to Ka’ena Point | Lower Makua Cave On this particular weekend, Curtis had only half a day off, and that day happened to be rainy all over the island. It would have been easy to just forego our weekend adventure and enjoy a lazy day at home — but…
Hiking Kuli’ou’ou Ridge | Lanai Lookout | June 16, 2018 On Curtis’ days off, he leaves his alarm set for 5am just so we have the option to get up and get an early start on a hike. This has yet to happen, but maybe someday… When I finally roll out of bed (because I’m the…
Spending a Day in Wahiawa | Wahiawa, Hawaii | June 2018 On one cloudy weekend morning, we set out for a more obscure hike in an area we hadn’t yet driven through. Wahiawa is located in the center of Oahu, right off the H2 before arriving in Mililani. Curtis chose a short hike for us,…
Hiking the Kealia Trail | The Wai’anae Mountains of Oahu If you look at our map of hikes done on Oahu, you would notice that it is very disproportionate on East vs. West hikes. We clearly spend way more time in the Ko’olaus than the Wai’anaes. The reasons for that are that it’s easier and…
Hiking to the Ehukai Pillbox & Beyond | Memorial Day 2018 The morning of Memorial Day started off a rainy one, but we didn’t let that deter us from hiking. We drove up the Windward coast through heavy showers and made it to our destination: Sunset Beach, where we would begin our hike to the…
Hiking Kulepeamoa Ridge Loop Trail to Hawaii Loa Ridge | Honolulu, Oahu After several weeks (months?) of having low hanging clouds over the Ko’olau Mountains on Curtis’ days off, we finally had a brief break in the clouds! And I mean brief as in, if we had been a half hour later to the peak,…