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…
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,…
When we were in high school, a “Great Adventure” meant dressing up in capes and going to Walmart late at night, picking up some ice cream and Kool-Aid, then having a Monty Python movie night at a friend’s house in a blanket fort. As we grew older, the standard for adventure was raised higher and higher…
Weekend Adventures • Kuli’ou’ou Ridge Trail • Spitting Cave • February 11, 2018 During Curtis’ first week on Oahu before I arrived, he hiked to one peak that has remained one of his favorite hikes so far. Of course I wanted to experience it for myself, so while Curtis still has weekends free, we set off to hike it early…
Moving into our New House • Hiking to Lulumahu Falls • Beginning of December After a long 2 months of living in a hotel, we finally signed a big stack of papers and officially became homeowners! This was a long anticipated event for us — you may remember in one of the first posts of this…
Hiking Mount Olympus • Ko’olau Mountain Range • October 28, 2017 Having hiked Ka’ala the weekend before, I really started to think that we had probably done one of the most difficult hikes on the island. And, with a peak done in the Wai’anaes, I felt that it would be appropriate to do a peak in the…