hiking to Eke Crater North west Maui.

[Jeff aka shredulato]

I see on a topo map ( @ topozone.com search: maui) that there is a
trail to Eke crater, in west Maui.
Does any one know of hiking this trail??
I can find no reference of this trail in the groups or on the net or
in Maui hiking books.
Now it seem like a long schlog as the trail approaches from the
north and I can only assume it is wet cold and muddy and would
experience the extremes of wet cold weather that west maui gets.
Is it accessable or does the conglomerate group of private companies
in west maui forbid access to this area, due to the fragile
ecosystem??
Any ideas. i have hiked the pali trail( easy) Iao Valley (Very easy)
Waihee valley and ridge, Halelakala
etc etc and they arent really challenges to me and everybody has taken
them.

E mail me at wildw...@yahoo.com if you dont want to diclose hiking
particulars on the net.

[Mckenna Hallett]

Jeff aka shredulato wrote:

>
> E mail me at wildw...@yahoo.com if you dont want to diclose hiking
> particulars on the net.

So akamai! thank-you for that.

Meanwhile, have you connected with the Nature Conservancy or the Sierra
Club? Both have office here on Maui. I think they have done some touring
in those areas, but at least they will likely know a lot about the details
of hiking in general in those mountains.

I know of one friend who did do some hiking in that region...no idea if it
was the trail you mentioned, but for certain it was wet, cold, muddy, and
downright difficult. My friend moved back to the mainland a couple of
years ago and I have lost contact, but if I get any feedback from other
hikers I know, I will connect with you again and via your personal e-mail.

Mckenna

[Jeff aka shredulato]

Mckenna Hallett <mck...@lowerimpact.com> wrote in message
news:<1007485...@mochi.lava.net>...

thanks for those recomendations Mckenna.
Have you posted here before, Puu Kukui threads i think me read your stuff??

thanks again

Jeff

[Mckenna Hallett]

>
> thanks for those recomendations Mckenna.
> Have you posted here before, Puu Kukui threads i think me read your stuff??
>
> thanks again
>
> Jeff

Nope...my firts posting was less than a month ago. New to this group and
newsgroups in general.

Have you actually hiked Puu Kukui? I am going to see if I can find your posts...

Mckenna

[Jeff aka shredulato]

Mckenna Hallett <mck...@lowerimpact.com> wrote in message news:<1007578...@mochi.lava.net>...

No i have not, and i know that it is an expensive lottery type system
to get anywhere close to Puu Kukui, as far as i know as its stands
right now you cannot get to the summit. There are postings on the net
( using a groups search for keyword: Puu Kukui), that have one persons
hike up there.
bu other than that one cannot get to the summit until they get board
walks all the way up, or even close to it unless they have the money
and win the lottery.
i understand the ecosystem issues, but in light of the green issues
who knows i may never get anywhere close.
The map i pulled up at topozone .com showed a trail around the crater
extending north, it then vanishes as it follows a ridge line that is
also a border line between Wailuku and Lahaina districts, I
cannot find it anywhere close to the coast where
it must start at a 4x4 road or something of that nature.

My reconing is that it would be a real grind of a hike three days at
least, 7.5 miles from the coast according to the map one way.
Diffenately the long wasy to the interior, as opposed to the lottery
hike from the Kapalua Coast to a point called Kaulalewelewe and then
onwards.
You cant get to Eke crater that way as the Honokohau Valley is in the
way.
Jeff

[Dayle K. Turner]

On 5 Dec 2001, Mckenna Hallett wrote:

> Have you actually hiked Puu Kukui?

http://www.flex.com/~dkt/pk/begin.html

Almost got to the summit back in '98.

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[Sam Gon III]

The trail to Eke is a long haul, and runs through a Natural Area Reserve
(Kahakuloa Section of West Maui NAR), so you should contact Dept Land &
Nat Resources before going. I'm not sure if even many hunters get all the
way up to Eke, since there are not too many pigs there. I've been to Eke
only once, during a survey of the Natural Area Reserves. Beautiful, weed
free, and lack of hiker traffic keeps it that way. If you do go, I suggest
you make sure your gear is clean of seeds, etc, especially your boots
(cleaned of mud bearing seeds of who knows what from who knows where). At
Eke it is cold, misty, wet, and there are sinkholes from which you might
not emerge if you happen to fall in one in the thick fog. I heard roaring
waterfalls pouring into one, fed by the pools that dot the surface of
flat-topped Eke. Rare plants such as Isoetes, Hawaiian bog Geranium, bog
silverswords, etc were a real treat to see, but I felt guilty about the
damage my footsteps did to that bog system.

Sam

Jeff aka shredulato wrote:

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