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Testing the limits: A long day of hiking in Hawai’i Volcanoes NP I love being on the move. For that reason, hiking is the most natural thing for me and I can keep going forever. My job as a lava tour guide luckily involves a lot of hiking and I often end up an average of 6-13 miles several...

Rainy Day at the flow Valentines Day lava - my plan was to hike way up to the Pali and check out the flow up the there again. But mother nature always has different plans. While I was hiking out it started to pour and was getting worse and worse. For sure, this was no day to hike up to the...

A scouting trip to Pulama Pali, HI Since I was a small kid I was fascinated with volcanoes. I don’t know where this was coming from but I guess a lot had to do with the awesome documentaries of the French volcanologist couple Maurice and Katia Krafft. It was sad when they died during an...

Hope and I have hiked the first 2 miles in on this trail a few times and really enjoyed it. This year we decided to get a permit prior to our Kauai trip and do the full 11 on the Napali coast. The original plan was to spend 4 nights and 5 days, but the day we had planned to set out, it rained...

Plans. They never turn out as planned. In life, in general. Circumstances arise, the plans go down, contingencies replace them. Such was the case at the conclusion of 2015. I'd intended to spend a week on Oahu, making some significant progress on matters of personal importance. But when that...

My brother doesn't have an account on here (I'll get him on here soon), but here is his trip report from howellsoutdoors.com This past Sunday, December 7, 2014, I finally had the opportunity to summit the highest peak on O’ahu located in the Hawaiian Islands; summit, according to my GPS, was...