Training Archive: kupackmanIn the 7 days ending 2008-04-20:
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Sunday Apr 20 | ||
| Hiking 2:00:00 [2] 4.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| Woke up before the crack of dawn and drove up to the summit again for sunrise (the silver lining in not being able to backpack). Sunrise was really cool... probably should have gotten there 30 minutes earlier for the complete color transformation. Still fun.
Then we drove down and over to the other mountain on Maui and to Iao State Park. Our plan was to hike a trail from the guidebook, one that didn't have any signage or official trailhead. In fact, we had to hop over the railing at the end of the paved trail to start the hike. The trail was well worn, but confusing at times. The guidebook didn't have any maps, so we're unsure that the viewpoint we scrambled up to (using exposed roots as handholds) was the one mentioned in the book. I think we ended up on the ridge to the left, instead. Nonetheless, the effort was worth the view, as we were standing on the top of a hill on a ridge in the middle of this green, jungley valley with jagged, needle-like peaks surrounding us, many of them so high that they went into the low clouds! | ||
| C • After digging around, I think we climbed... 2 | ||
| Hiking 45:00 [1] 1.5 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
| Back down to the sunny beaches. We parked alongside N Kihei Road, right next to the beach. We walked up the beach until we got to the nature reserve, and walked on some boardwalks for a while, and then back down the beach to where we parked. At the beach there, there were some shade trees, so we sat in the shade and built sand structures, only to have the tide come in and demolish them. | ||
| Other 30:00 [1] | |
| Finally dipped into the ocean for the first (and only) extended period of time at Kamaole Beach Park !, back over on the west coast of the eastern half of Maui. Ahh, that felt good. | ||
Saturday Apr 19 | ||
| Hiking 2:00:00 [2] 5.0 mi (24:00 / mi) | |
| Got up early, and drove back through the Hana Highway, grabbed a fresh fruit smoothie (mango, papaya, pineapple + honey) at a roadside stand (can it get any better?). Then we drove up to the summit of Haleakala, at 10,023. Wandered around up there for a bit, and then did the hike down the Sliding Sands trail to the Ka Lu'u o ka 'O'o cinder cone, which you stand atop and look down. It was about there that the light rain started, and it sprinkled all the way back the 2.5 miles to the end of the trail.
We definitely weren't prepared for the 10,000 altitude (esp. after spending the night at practically 0). Shortly after arriving to the car (about 5 hours at elevation), we had killer headaches and nausea. We had planned to hike in 4 miles with backpacks, starting at a trailhead at 8000 feet, but we felt so bad, that we drove down to the car campground around 6700 feet and napped in the car, and then pitched the tent and went to bed. | ||
Friday Apr 18 | ||
| Hiking 15:00 [1] 0.5 mi (29:59 / mi) | |
| Our flight left Honolulu at 5:12am, arrived in Maui by 6:00am. Picked up the rental car and headed out to Hana. Stopped by Hookipa Beach Park and walked along the beach before 7:00am. The only other people there were local surfers. It was brilliant. | ||
| Hiking 30:00 [1] 1.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| Did a short 1-mile hike in the Keanae Arboretum. Saw lots of non-native tropical plants. We intended to keep going up the trail to the native plants (per the guidebook), but the trail was really overgrown. | ||
| Hiking 30:00 [1] 1.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| Spent some time wandering around Keanae. Out to the rocks and tidepools, wandering over to the church and cemetery, and down to the end of the dirt road to a surprise blowhole/rock/wave thing. Very sunny out, and the tour buses had finally caught up to us. | ||
| Hiking 30:00 [1] 1.0 mi (30:00 / mi) | |
| Hiked around Wainanapanapa State Park. We tried to find the pool with the secret underwater passage to a cave with a ledge. We actually thought we found it, but the pool didn't appear to be all that exciting (and slightly stagnant, so we skipped it.) We did hike through the lava tube, which was amazing. We just sat in there for a long, long time, snapping pictures and just enjoying watching the waves crash in there.
Before this park, we'd tried hiking to the Blue Pool just a bit earlier, but when we got there, there was a disclaimer sign saying that it was closed to the public since the trail crossed private property.. liability reasons, I'm sure. Oh, and on that drive, I got yelled at by a young, female jogger who screamed at me to "SLOW DOWN!" when I was going 22 in a 20 mph zone and gave her a whole lane of passing width. | ||
| Hiking 2:00:00 [2] 5.0 mi (24:00 / mi) | |
| Finally reached the end of the Hana Highway and kept going a bit further until we got to the Kipahulu area of Haleakala National Park. We pretty much did the extent of the trail system there. It started down near the ocean with seven large pools formed by this cascading stream. Farther up the stream, there was Makahiku Falls, 185 feet tall. Unfortunately, there hadn't been much rainfall, so this wasn't very dramatic. However, we hiked up to the top of it, and there was another large pool there, as well as an amazing view to the ocean, with the valley and preceding stream pools in between.
Also along this trail, we saw our first Lost tree. I should probably know what the name of this tree is, since we saw about a gazillion more in Honolulu... but if you watch Lost, you'll know what we're talking about. Father up the trail, we were completely immersed in a bamboo forest. It was surreal. Absolutely surreal. It was so dense and tall that it made the early evening seem like the sun had already set. Bamboo, and only bamboo, was all you could see. Wow. And then at the end of the trail was Waimaku Falls, at 400 feet or so. Even though the other one was a bit underwhelming, this was was pretty impressive, even with a low water volume. It was just so tall, and over a flat face of lava, too! | ||
| C • That hike was awesome! 3 | ||
Wednesday Apr 16 | ||
| Note | |
| Met with my orthopedist about my MRI results!
No tendon damage, no cartilage damage! Ligaments are still showing signs of being stretched but are healing nicely! And, good lord, TONS of contusions, fluid build-ups and bone bruises! Yeah! So... I can pretty much be as active as I want to be, and that the pain might better on some days than others, and that the bruises will be around for a few more months (which is what I expected). | ||