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| Koko Head from the trail |
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I was super excited to hear Jenna had the day off of work for her bosses birthday/good friday, so we decided why not go for a hike, the hike we both wanted to do for awhile, but our husbands have been pretty busy and not able or exactly wanting to do it when we did, not to mention they are way faster than us. Jenna got to my house around 10:45 A.M., since I had to work until 9:30, on a particular busy day, wait everyday is busy, what am I talking about. Well, we left had to go back because I had forgot my heart rate monitor or course, grabbed that, then we were on our way. We arrived at the trail i think around 11:30, the hike began in Hawaii Kai, a gorgeous area just outside of Honolulu, the area was residential and rather hard to park, as always Jenna's driving scared me, but we parked and packed up for the hike, P.S. my camelback WAS HELLA HEAVY, I guess Matt put more water in it then i knew...
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| Me on the top :) |
On to the hike, we start along, seems OK, we get to a turning point, Kuliouou Ridge Trail, or Kuliouou Valley hike, there were some people chilling at the sign who mentioned that we wanted to go on the ridge hike, that, that was were the views were, and then we thought about it, yeah that was the one we wanted.
Starting up the ridge trail, they people said, Oh, the lady who told just went up said it's about 45 minutes up, we were excited, then started thinking, SERIOUSLY, no way! It took us 1 hour and 15 minutes to get up, it was pretty much straight up, in about 1.5 miles it's an elevation climb of 1,700 feet, including, some rocks, some of those awful cook pine needles, which Jenna took a digger on, I was kinda scared she was gonna take a digger of the side of the mountain, if she did thankfully she wouldn't of literally fallen to her death, but none the less it was scary, and those needles are no joke, they are SO slippery.
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| Love the trees :) |
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Less than a half a mile in you can get some awesome views of Hawaii kai, including the ocean, and the Koolau mountains, continuing up the mountains, about almost 1 mile you reach a little picnic table, which I gladly sat at, to empty some of my EXTREMELY, full camelback that was already hurting my shoulders. So we sat, emptied, and continued, up and around more pine needles, through some awesome trees, and also to a little sitting area, which was nice to sit at again, since I seem to sweat WAY more than normal. The trees we passed through were awesome, like little tree people or something, the trees in Hawaii are crazy, really weird roots that's for sure. Further up the trail to the right you start to see Haumana Bay and Koko head, we then started to see stairs, thinking there were only a couple stairs, no that was a lie, more than I'd like to have climbed after already being exhausted.
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| Jenna and I |
SO, we finally made it to the top, we passed a few people along the way which felt pretty good, but the top was gorgeous, nice views, rather windy and we were freezing after sweating a good way of the hike. We sat up there for a bit took some pictures and headed down, where it was the same as up, although going down kind of sucked, most of the way actually we just wanted to be done, where we slipped up and tripped more than we'd like to of done, BUT we had gone to the cupcake place after, it was delish! Fun hike for sure, love doing girl hikes without having to deal with the guys waiting for us!!!
Elevation: 1,929 feet
Distance: 2.5 miles round trip
Difficulty: Intermediate
Calorie burn: 1600 Calories
Directions
Kuliouou Ridge
