Things went on fairly uneventfully until Hideo and I reached the spot (3) with a backwards fork that Joe had marked as "Bailout Trail."
We planned to take that, but I thought it would be a good spot to stop for lunch, and I could sort of clue people in about the options.
I told the ones (most?) that were going to do the tunnel route that they should continue the way they were going until they reached a road,
turn left on it and follow it down when it curved to the right, until they got to the bottom of the valley where there would be some
kind of steel and concrete structure; I didn't clearly remember the red pipe at that moment.
Lunch done, Hideo and I took the "bail-out" route, almost immediately reaching the point where that trail met the Maunawili
Demonstration trail (4). For some reason (I was confused again!) that surprised me, so I decided to hike out the Maunawili trail and
drop down (5) to the pipe (6). Hideo came with. And as it turned out, we got there before any of those I had been directing from our lunch
spot at the fork in the trail!
We pushed on, met some of the people heading in for the tunnel, until I reached Joe, standing at a fork with an option for the "bail-out"
trail. I had intended to follow it out (Hideo had turned around with some of the hikers heading in), but after listening to people we had
passed asking for instructions from Joe, I decided I had better go back down and see if I could help out. Probably just as well; a number
(six or seven) of people had crossed the stream following the pipes uphill in a totally wrong direction (like the black line toward the "6" on topo).
Once they were all back on the road, we made tracks along the ditch to the tunnel (8), but instead of going through it, I climbed the hill
above it back to the Maunawili trail and back to the road out (starting at 4).
I was surprised to meet Joe again at about point 9, where he directed me to follow a side trail he called the "ditch trail."
(My Magellan GPS obviously lost satellite contact along here.) When I got to a ribboned trail heading down, I took it, and passed up a
couple of chances to turn left back to the cars, until I saw that I was coming out (10) at the big lot where we park to do Maunawili trail
hikes, and went back up and turned on the first one I came to. I came out on the road below the entrance to the ditch trail, so followed the
roads back to point 1, both 0.0 and 6.1 miles from where I started.
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