Hiking the Kalalau Trail

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If you drive on the road til you can no longer drive any more, you’ll get to Ke’e beach. From there we hiked on the Kalalau Trail. I didn’t realize til just now that Kalalau Lookout is where we were the previous day and so if we would have kept hiking on the trail at Ke’e beach for a really long time, we’d be at the area we looked down on from the lookout. I think? We only hiked on the trail for 2 miles to Hanakapia’i Beach, which is all the farther you can go without a permit. I’d done this hike before and it kicked my butt. I fell down a few times, fell in the stream, fell in the river, almost lost a shoe and ruined my shorts with red clay. This time: I didn’t even fall once! Susan and Allison are my witnesses. It is a hard trail, but the views are magnificent.

When we were almost done coming down the trail, I was so hot and tired and hungry (why didn’t we eat anything all day!?!) that I didn’t know what I was dreaming of more: Jumping in the ocean or binging on the bag of tortilla chips that was in the car. We went to the car and changed as quickly as we could, took a dip in the water and then passed out on Ke’e Beach for an hour or so.

One thing – I had my camera set for the really dark lighting in the cave and never changed it. So, a lot of my photos from the hike are really blown out. Hopefully you don’t think these that I salvaged are to bad.

For more, this guy has a great diary of his adventures on the Kalalau Trail, going WAAAYYY past where we hiked to.

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