A 300,000 year old (give or take a few days...) crater that sits on the edge of Honolulu, on the island of O'ahu. It totals about 375 acres of land with a hike to the summit reaching around 560 feet.
The trail was initially built in 1908 as part of the island of O'ahu's defense system. Now it's just here to kill us overweight and out-of-shape folks... sort of a "thinning of the herd" type thingy.
This seems like a good idea since we're here and all...
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| We didn't take these pictures, obviously, as we would have needed some type of flying vessel or a various super-power to fly on our own. None of us has revealed such powers to date, so I relied on the informative Bing.com to supply with an areal shot or 3 (or four!). |
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| The lad, with me taking the picture since we're lagging behind, as Caleb "the family mountain goat" continues to ascend at a ridiculous pace! |
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| This was fun. No really, it was! This picture was actually taken on the trek back down, but I included it here. We had stopped at this point because Robby wanted to descend the exact same path in which his ascension had occurred, while I wanted to go around the "outside", and this was our meeting point. The fun part was, getting to watch the people who had just come up the crazy rocky part of the hike, thinking they were close to the top, and when they popped out of that little door on the right, every single one of them looked to their left first, then back to their right, followed by a muttering of something like, "Oh, $h!+...". It was great fun to watch! |
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| The lad, still happy on our ascension. |
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| Both lads, both happy! |
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| Our little happy, marching mountain goat, Calebber McCheese! I think he could have jogged up the silly trail and still been able to breathe at the top... |
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| View number 1 where you can see other hikers at the left of the photo, and you can see one of the military look-outs towards the middle right of the picture. Oh, and there's some ocean if you're into that kind of thing. |
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| Another similar but slightly different view. There's a small town down there on the coast. You can see a church steeple just slightly below the middle of the photo. |
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| Near the top. That's Honolulu in the background. |
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| Just... look! |
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| I thought this was cool. At the summit, you can see straight along the ridge line of the crater over to the next military outlook with Honolulu in the background. |
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| Caleb at the summit! |
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| Family pic at the place where we enjoyed watching others at the base of the big staircase in the picture towards the top of this post! Honolulu is to left of the photo and other stuff is behind us... ;-) |
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| A pic already made famous and only a couple of million "shares on facebook" away from going full-on viral, my big, tired sweaty carcass about 3/4 the way up. That's about a 300 foot drop right behind me. I think, from other old equipment around this site, that it used to be a pulley system to get equipment/supplies up to the lookout points, but I could be entirely wrong since I'm just making that up. |
That's it for this hike!
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