Failed but connected a few days later...

On Sunday January 20th I decided to take advantage of the beautiful Hawaii weather and go hike with two of my buddies.  We decided to hike one of the ridges on East Oahu and find a trail that has been in disuse for quite some time.

We pushed off around nine and luckily one of the big well known groups had just cleared the trail and was hiking on the trail that day as well.  So there was plenty of company and plenty of conversation at the summit.  After a forty five minutes of conversing and eating lunch we decided to head back down and find that ridge and a way down to the valley floor.

The walk back was windy as the walk up to the summit but even more windy once we got onto the ridge heading down into the valley.  So windy that as I was filming I almost rolled off the edge of the ridge! 

We went on a two or more hour search for the right and safe route down.  Unfortunately we couldn't find a safe way down so we bush whacked it back to the ridge and headed down the way we came that day. 

But today on Monday January 23rd we decided to try and find out what we did wrong on the way down.  The idea was to connect the valley trail to where we last ribboned off from the top, and today, we did just that!  So hopefully in the near future we can do a loop where we start on the ridge and drop down to the valley floor with some dry waterfalls =)


Please enjoy the pics!

Framing the backside of Diamond Head with an Ohia Lehua tree!  

The awesome ocean view!  

Our view from the lunch spot!  Shot with Iphone Panorama... I must say pretty good!