Kalalau ridge to Koke'e
A Rugged Mountain Climb Up the Pali Face on Kauai By Harry Whitten, Mon Nov 14, 1983 Star Bulletin Silver K. Piliwale, at the age of 82, continues to astound his hiking companions by his rugged mountain climbs. Recently the hardy Hawaiian, in company with William K. Hussey of Haena, Kauai, climbed up the pali face from Kalalau Valley, on Kauai's Na Pali coast, to Kokee. Hawaiians in the old days, when they lived in Kalalau, had a trail of sorts going up to Kokee. Piilani, the wife of Koolau the Leper, is said to have used the route when she left Kalalau to go over the mountains and down to Waimea to get supplies such as sugar or tobacco to bring to her husband in the isolated valley. Koolau was the subject of a story by Jack London after he fought off a party of national guardsmen sent in 1893 to captures and take him to Kalaupapa Settlement on Molokai. He was never captured, but in time he and his son died of the disease and his wife returned to her family in Kekaha, Kauai. In ...