01-07-2026, 06:15 PM
I call it cat rock, but doubt it’s notated as such anywhere else.
I don’t know, specifically, Edge, but that terrain reminds me of the hike between the Luamanu Crater parking lot (on the upper end of the Chain of Craters road) west to the edge of the Keanakao’l Crater. That entire area is a rich experience of volcanic forms.. the tree molds in that area, created by the 1974 Keanakao’i lava flow, are other worldly really.
The thing that throws me is the shape of the land behind the mold.. that ridge doesn’t quite fit my memory unless its a view towards the south and is capturing that rise just to the west of the Luamanu Crater. But, hey, am I close? Somehow as I write this I doubt it..
I don’t know, specifically, Edge, but that terrain reminds me of the hike between the Luamanu Crater parking lot (on the upper end of the Chain of Craters road) west to the edge of the Keanakao’l Crater. That entire area is a rich experience of volcanic forms.. the tree molds in that area, created by the 1974 Keanakao’i lava flow, are other worldly really.
The thing that throws me is the shape of the land behind the mold.. that ridge doesn’t quite fit my memory unless its a view towards the south and is capturing that rise just to the west of the Luamanu Crater. But, hey, am I close? Somehow as I write this I doubt it..