Oh My God! ridge
A handful of us gathered at the end of Kala'au Place in Kuliouou Valley this morning with the goal of creating a new route to the crest of the valley's middle ridge. Though Wing established a new MR route recently, for reasons I won't go into, another one was being sought. To summarize what happened, yup, we all made it up to the crest of the MR. And after lunch, we made our way back to the valley by way of yet another route makai of the one we went up. What did all this accomplish? Really, I'm not sure, other than I, for one, was the glad recipient of a really nice hill-climbing workout. What anyone does with the new routes we did I leave that to them. Okay, so who showed up? Mabel, Jay, Georgina, Connie, Gordon, Peter, Wil, Tom, myself, and a wahine I'll call gung-ho-first-timer (or GHFT, for short). I think her name was Jan or Joan, but my recollection is hazy. Anyway, who didn't show up was one of GHFT's teenage sons, much to the chagrin of Geor...