Summer 2013

It's been an amazing summer to say the least.  This summer has been one of the best for waves.  From beginning to end it seemed like there was non stop waves for the south shore.  I practiced this one right hand wave for the entire summer.  After work in the morning I would check the surf report and if there was waves I would go down to Ala moana and surf there everyday if I wasn't too busy or too tired from work.  Every so often I would take a trip to Sandy beach and shoot some shore break.  Enjoy a few pics and clips in the video below.

The hiking this summer has been spectacular, weather wise and just general hiking with people I usually don't hike with. I only took one trip at the beginning of summer to the island of Kauai to backpack the Na Pali coast.  In previous blog post found Kalalau Part 1, Kalalau Part 2, Kalalau Part 3 you can see the weather the waves and the great fun we had during this trip.  

Hiking on Oahu has been good too! I've been meaning to complete the KST in sections and have been intrigued with doing the Northern part of the KST.  One of the more enjoyable main hike this summer was up to the Waimalu.  The blog post on Waimalu can be found here.

The group that I hike with this summer was super interested in finding some of he upper falls in some of the valleys which are super hard to reach.  Some of the waterfalls we saw were some that not many people get to see so I'm thankful for them showing me such gems on Oahu.  

This summer has been great and still looking forward to hiking throughout the fall.  There's many more hikes I need to blog about so stay tuned for some mean waterfalls and some thin ridges I've been hiking these past few weeks!  Lastly thanks for all the people that follow this blog and watch all my videos on a regular basis... Couldn't do it without all of your support!

 This woman was by my side the whole time this summer! Thanks for sharing the good times with me.

Waves crashing on a secluded beach.

Seems like something out of another planet.

The famous rainbow kiss!

The only way to start out the summer... Trip to Kalalau beach.

Fluted mountains at sunset. 

Looking down into Kalalau Valley.  

Waimea Canyon.

Katie checking out another view from the side of the road.  

Short afternoon hike... will never forget this day! 

An empty summer day at Sandy Beach.

I didn't get good video footage of our cave diving but I got this shot of Mr. Turtle.

Sunset time.

Barrels at this place was fun!

Hot bunkers

If you follow me on instagram and or facebook you probably already know that I hiked, surfed, and climbed at the gym yesterday!  Here is the write up of yesterdays hike as my tired body rests in this comfy chair.
Yesterday I finally got a chance to hike with my regular hiking partner Lei! I was pretty stoked because I hadn't seen her since before the holidays... you know... everyone is busy right!?  We met up at her place and joining us to our long ride to Wainae was Jason.  We piled into her car and met up with Pete, Jenny and Dave.  As we were driving there the weather was a bit unusual because it was actually raining in Waianae!  Lei was worried because she didn't have any rain gear but turns out that the weather cleared and it was really hot.  We decided to do some peaks next to the ocean to some bunkers.  I called them "Hot bunkers" because it was so freckin hot.  The hike had a pretty clear path on where to go but some of us decided to do a little rock climbing and scrambling here and there!  When we finished our hike we all decided to grab a few drinks at Jamba juice and head up north to surf a little.
It was my first time at rocky point but I was happy there were waves.  Jason, Lei and I jumped in and surfed for only an hour because our legs were cramping from the morning's hike!  So we called it a day and headed back to town.  Enjoy the pics!

 The group pic! 

 Hot Bunkers view!

Lei down climbing a rock face.

 Super hot ridge line

 Not quite sunset but caught some rays coming through the clouds

Hot Bunkers from Ryan Chang on Vimeo.