I have hiked up Olomana three times before, I think, early in this century, when I was still unappreciatively in my late sixties.
At least once I did the first two peaks, but I was afraid to go down the little slope to look at where the trail to the third goes steeply down. Another time up, I did the second and third peaks, astonished to find that I didn't even need to use the ropes down from the second to the saddle between it and the third, nor up, coming back. I was determined to do the three peaks once in my lifetime. But what a difference a decade makes! I had no memory of how tough and scary even the first two peaks are. And I used those ropes! Anyway, I scratched one from my bucket list. |
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Hiking to the hike |
First good view |
First dike? |
More rock |
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Two more peaks |
Looking back at first peak |
Peak3 ahead |
Coming back |
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Ditto |
Ko`olau panorama |
Weird! |
Heading out |
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Hole in the rock |
View |
Ditto |
Google map |
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Topo map and GPS profiles | |||||||||||
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