I have combined maps of the 2012 and 2013 hikes. I find it somewhat interesting that the tracks tend to go wild in the same places, although the 2013 hike is heavily edited. For the August 29 2012 version of this hike, five of us started early, wanting to push on beyond Sun Rock. We were informed that the plan was to do the hike clockwise instead of the usual counterclockwise, so we did the same. I didn't remember to turn my GPS on until we were well into the long guava "tunnel" leading to the downhill to the stream.

I convinced the others in my group that finishing the loop with the uphill to the Aiea Ridge trailhead would involve less of a climb than going back down stream and going up the way we had come down. The distance/elevation profile below reveals just how horribly wrong I was!

Meanwhile, there is an alternate ("contour") trail from approximately the "CT1" marker (move cursor to marker to read name) to the "CT2" marker that, had we taken it, would have made this a real sissy hike. :-)

In 2013 we did it the usual counterclockwise fashion. Again I didn't turn my GPS on until late. (You can erase tracks temporarily by clicking on their names, and you can select other map formats.





GMT is 10 hours ahead of Hawaii time.