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,…
Hiking to Kahuku Point | Hiking the Hau’ula Loop Trail | Windward Oahu We set out one Saturday morning to find some obscure hikes and we completely lucked out. It’s not often we are all alone on a trail, especially on a weekend, and definitely not on a beautiful sunny day…but it happened! Days like…
Exploring the Koko Crater Botanical Garden | May 2018 When Curtis was gone last March, there were several places that I visited with my family that I just knew I had to return to with him. The one I thought he’d enjoy the most was Koko Crater Botanical Garden. On a cloudy day off when we couldn’t…
Hiking Olomana | Kailua, Hawaii | May 2018 Olomana is one of the more popular hikes on Oahu, but not because it’s an easy hike for all to enjoy. It isn’t the highest peak or longest distance by any stretch. Rather, Olomana consists of some of the most steep, narrow, and precarious ridges, and the thrill of…