Laie Falls - September 3rd, 2011

Stay to the left LOL 

This is an attempt to back blog from almost 6 months ago! So hang with me here, while I TRY to remember what happened on this hike, I feel this was going to come, me just giving up on my blog, which also sucks that I haven't been hiking much!

We all gathered at our house, Jenna, Zach, Peter (Matt's friend who moved to the island in July), and of course Matt and I. Laie is a pretty decent drive from Wahiawa, taking us about 45 minutes to get there. Lets just say it was pretty hot that day too!

The trail was pretty boring actually, the guys of course jetted ahead of Jenna and I, which left us kind of in the dark on some of the trail splits, which in turn left us lost, and up a hill over near what looked to be a camp of some sort, it was ODD, it had a toilet and all, so weird. Finally, we did end up on the right trail thank god! The trail itself is about 3 miles each way, with some good views of the ocean. Some of the trail is a mountain bike trail so be careful for bikes flying down the hill! The trail in parts literally seem to never end, finally come to a junction that leads to the falls or can go on to the ridge hike. The hike that leads down to the trail is STEEP, for whatever reason it was scary! there were ropes to hang on to, and big rocks to jump off of, the guys came to help us down, Oh, how nice of them!

The waterfall was nice, it had a decent flow to it, which was great, since we sweat our butt off to get to it, and if it was just a trickle, I would of been mad! The hike back was just as boring as the way there, the guys literally ran off ahead, leaving a turn that almost sealed Matt's fate as he nearly took himself out around a corner, I'm also pretty sure Zach biffed it on a rock too, Oh boys, they never learn!

Location: Wahiawa to Laie falls

Distance: 6 miles round trip

Difficulty: Dry and long! not to difficult though