Living in Hawaii – Moving to Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Big Island

I was looking through Hawaii hiking videos on Youtube and was lucky to find this one. Here are some guys taking one trail and connecting with the Haiku Stairs trail, “Stairway to Heaven” trail. It looks pretty treacherous. I’m not sure I’d want to be climbing this Kulana’ahane trail that requires all the ropes, but [...]

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Just a short note to let you know that I created a new page for the Hawai’iloa Ridge Trail hike on southeast Oahu, Hawaii today. This is an amazing hiking trail, 3.5 miles long and 1,700 vertical feet high. It is a somewhat challenging hike with some steep climb sections you need to pull yourself [...]

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There are people in Hawaii doing 100 mile ‘races’. [Video at the bottom of this article] Ultra running is something I’ve never thought of doing – in Hawaii, or anywhere. I think the farthest I’ve ran has been about 12 miles or so. I wasn’t keeping track at the time, it was just a very [...]

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View Larger Map It might have been this park that started my unholy obsession with hiking and climbing. I lived on Maui for over a year while working for a Maui resort management firm in Lahaina. I lived in Kahana, and I got a lot of days off and free time. Every chance I could, [...]

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I’ve been climbing the stairs up a mountain for 4 years now. It started as an innocent pastime which turned into, I guess, an obsession. I’m addicted to it. I’ve almost climbed  a million stairs there in 4 years. What a cool thing it is to say it – right? Most of it has been [...]

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This bears repeating… I just had a girl write me a couple times as she read each post in this series – loving it. This was some of my best writing ever in my life – and I hoped more people would see it and use it. I really looked inside as I ran and [...]

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How many of you can keep your exercise schedule perfectly? When I was in my 20′s and 30′s in Hawaii and Florida doing a lot of running, bicycling, biathlon and triathlon races I always had a set schedule. I stuck to that schedule as best I could – but I would fail sometimes. Nobody can [...]

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