01-30-2014, 07:03 AM
The Waimea side has more pavement...& Mana has many deep undercut rutted tracks to choose from for a few miles starting above Hakalau .... so it is a little less time from Waimea...(esp. since most of the time on that route you are looking up to the undercut ruts on the way in...& can hopefully remember the best route on the way out...) Have done both directions & I prefer the Waimea start...but only when I am also planning to do something in Waimea or beyond...