06-14-2014, 04:06 PM
at least Lance Armstrong has climbed (by roadbike) the steepest road in the World w/o touching the ground (road down to Waipio)....
https://sites.google.com/site/waipiobike/
Good luck on your adventure, just cutting across 800+' of Uluhe ferns on my property is tough on the body and will draw blood, cant see cutting through miles and miles of the nasty stuff, and thats just a single indigenous species of fern thats everywhere up there (and needs to be cut to be passable), and not including alot of thick low growing wet (some endangered) endemic shrubs hiding slippery hidden ravines, pukas, and cracks... just the description of what it took the non-eco-friendly WWII Era rescuers to get to the survivors would make me reconsider and maybe go for a 'fly by' instead of 'hands on by foot' adventure.... and if the plane has already moved once (slipped from the creek area into the ravine), it is probably not real stable to go inside for pics, especially when its on its side...
other things that make me wonder ... water and food, an active person needs to drinks at least a gallon of water a day minimum, but when hiking and sweating it will be far more IMO, thats 8 lbs to a gallon you need to carry/day and thats just the water..PLUS dont drink the creek/pond/river water... Waipio and the other valleys there are well known areas of Lepto and most portable water filters are not set up for tropical environments (viruses etc.)... basic food and gear on top of that you may need a good Waikoloa nightingale to carry the stuff and they cant get through the Uluhe/shrubs easily either...
PS. please dont mess up the very rare bog areas of Kohola Mt., we only have a couple pristine high bogs in the state (Kauai and West Maui are the other ones besides Kohola)... they are full of endangered endemic plants and fauna and just walking on them damages them.
Good luck, please post pics if you make it!
aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
https://sites.google.com/site/waipiobike/
Good luck on your adventure, just cutting across 800+' of Uluhe ferns on my property is tough on the body and will draw blood, cant see cutting through miles and miles of the nasty stuff, and thats just a single indigenous species of fern thats everywhere up there (and needs to be cut to be passable), and not including alot of thick low growing wet (some endangered) endemic shrubs hiding slippery hidden ravines, pukas, and cracks... just the description of what it took the non-eco-friendly WWII Era rescuers to get to the survivors would make me reconsider and maybe go for a 'fly by' instead of 'hands on by foot' adventure.... and if the plane has already moved once (slipped from the creek area into the ravine), it is probably not real stable to go inside for pics, especially when its on its side...
other things that make me wonder ... water and food, an active person needs to drinks at least a gallon of water a day minimum, but when hiking and sweating it will be far more IMO, thats 8 lbs to a gallon you need to carry/day and thats just the water..PLUS dont drink the creek/pond/river water... Waipio and the other valleys there are well known areas of Lepto and most portable water filters are not set up for tropical environments (viruses etc.)... basic food and gear on top of that you may need a good Waikoloa nightingale to carry the stuff and they cant get through the Uluhe/shrubs easily either...
PS. please dont mess up the very rare bog areas of Kohola Mt., we only have a couple pristine high bogs in the state (Kauai and West Maui are the other ones besides Kohola)... they are full of endangered endemic plants and fauna and just walking on them damages them.
Good luck, please post pics if you make it!
aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha