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Pat, Ed, Steve, and I logged a good amount of hiking today. We all started in Waianae Valley and made our way up the No-Name Peak side of the Waianae Kai trail, a no-nonsense climb and a good workout. From there, we descended an ancient Hawaiian trail, nowadays used mostly by hunters, to Makaha Valley. This trail is well-defined in its upper third but less so the rest of the way as it descends thru guava. Pink ribbons helped us navigate our way. Once down in Makaha, we headed makai on a well-used trail along gently-flowing Makaha Stream. At one point, Pat led us up a short side trail on the right that took us in a couple minutes to a pu'u with a panoramic view of the valley. Pat and I agreed that the surroundings reminded us of what one might see from Smoke Rock in Kalalau. Very nice. The valley trail led to a Board of Water Supply well and a paved road leading to the well. We walked down the road, our next objective being to find a trail on the left that would lead us to ...

Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:01:20 -1000 From: Shelly Bermudez <sbermudez@ywcaoahu.org> To: turner@hawaii.edu Subject: Friendship Garden Aloha, My name is Shelly Bermudez and I am the Program Manager of YWCA Camp Kokokahi. Upon conducting a word search of Kokokahi, I came across your webpages about your hiking experience and the spirit dog. Mahalo for sharing your story. For the past 5 years that I have been at the camp, I have been interested in hearing any ghost stories about the Kokokahi site. Some brief history on Kokokahi..... Dreams are realized in a diversity of ways, but few so beautifully as that of Theodore Richards who envisioned a Hawaiian valley where people of many races would work, play, and pray together in harmony. This was "Kokokahi" of one blood. This was the name he gave the valley when his dream came to life in 1928. His vision of Kokokahi was inspired by the moving sermon of St. Paul in Chapter XVII of the Acts of Apostles. Friendship Garden w...

I dislike hiking in streambeds and along narrow ridges with rotten rock. As things turned out, I did both today probably because I'm a hardheaded son of a gun. Or maybe I did it because it was April Fool's Day, and I'm the king of fools. Today, the TM gang was slated to work on the Kipapa Trail in cooperation with the feds, but that outing was cancelled at the 11th hour. So, in place of Kipapa, Mabel requested that the crew hike/work on the Pu'u o Kona route for an upcoming club hike. So a bunch of us showed up at the end of Kalaau Place in Kuliouou Valley this morning to do our thing. I'd hiked the o Kona route last Saturday and reported to Mabel that not much work was needed on it. Given that, the day was designated more one for hiking than for labor. No complaints from me in that regard. The assembled throng dispersed hither and yon. Some folks went up the direct route to Kuliouou Ridge. Some went up the middle ridge via the end of Papahehi Place. I went w...