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Hiking inside Haleakala Crater. Part Three.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 9/19/2012

Destination: Maui

By now, you know I made it down Haleakala on Maui. The question that remains is how. My comedian readers would say that I made it down the slopes of Haleakala one step at a time, and that I did. The descent out of Haleakala Crater from our cabin in Paliku to Kaupo descended a healthy 6,130 feet over 8.6 miles, and it appears that even trimming my toenails and buying hiking shoes one size too big wasn’t enough to prevent what athletes call turf toe.
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Hiking inside Haleakala Crater. Part two.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 9/14/2012

Destination: Maui

So, there I was, four o’clock in the afternoon on a rainy September Sunday, 10 miles by foot from the nearest paved road. Sitting in a wilderness cabin the size of my living room at 6,380-foot elevation inside the dormant volcano known as Haleakala on Maui. No cell service to call my mother and say we’d hadn’t died on the trek the day before. No wi-fi to check my email. No electricity to charge any electronics whatsoever.
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The Coco Palms: 20 Years after Hurricane Iniki

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Tue 9/11/2012

Destination: Kauai

September 11, 2012 marks the 20th anniversary that Hurricane Iniki made landfall on Kauai, clocking 145 mph winds and gusts topping 230 mph. According to yesterday's article in The Garden Island, six fatalies were blamed on Iniki. Damages totaled more than $1.8 billion, including the loss of 1,400 homes and severe damage to 5,000 more.
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Hiking inside Haleakala Crater. Part One.

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Mon 9/10/2012

Destination: Maui

Haleakala is famous for its sunrises. Visitors head up the mountain in the black of night in order to witness the sun crawl up and over the tallest mountain on Maui, a dormant volcano, a sight considered by some to be an otherworldly experience. At 10,023-foot elevation, the black of night also delivers a spectacular star show, an added bonus, not quite as famous as its Mauna Kea neighbor, also peaking above the clouds, on Hawaii (Big) Island. But spectacular all the same.
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August in Photos

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Fri 9/7/2012

When I think of August 2012, I think of wedge-tailed shearwater chicks. I think of fledgling red-footed boobies circling Kilauea Point lighthouse. I think of bronzed versions of native forest birds at Na Aina Kai Botanical Gardens. When my brain shifts away from birds, I recall the happy trails of the Alakai Swamp. The sweeping views atop Kuliouou Ridge Trail. The white sands of a Kailua beach walk.
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Sinatra at the Tip Top Cafe

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 9/6/2012

Destination: Kauai

I just learned that Ava Gardner broke up with Frank Sinatra at the Tip Top Café in Lihue, Kauai. With its vinyl booths, Formica tables and cavernous-tall ceilings, you can just imagine Hollywood’s royalty noshing on pancakes—or oxtail soup, another of the restaurant’s famous dishes—and picture Ava, her head tilted, her eyes slit, delivering the news to Frank as a cloud of cigarette smoke hovered in the air above the soon-to-be ex-lovers.
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The Magical, Mystical World of the Alakai Swamp

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Thu 8/30/2012

Destination: Kauai

Last week, I headed to Kokee State Park on Kauai to do some hiking on the Alakai Swamp Trail at about 4,000-foot elevation. (This in order to train for my backpacking trip this Labor Day weekend through Haleakala National Park, at elevations starting at 9,740 feet.)
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Guest Blogger: Malia Yoshioka's Marathon Training Secret

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Sun 8/26/2012

Destination: Oahu

"While it's nice to think we live in our own endless summer, it's good to have a little variety once in a while. I tend to enjoy the subtle shift of the seasons. Fall is bittersweet in Hawaii. Although our leaves stay evergreen, the arrival of Fall means no more lychee and mangoes on the trees, slightly cooler temperatures, rain showers (and rainbows), and the beginning of another season: Honolulu Marathon training season." Guest blogger Malia Yoshioka shares her secret for sticking to her marathon training. Here's a hint: It has to do with food!

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Music on the Mountain

Kim Steutermann Rogers on Wed 8/22/2012

Destination: Oahu

It was only when the faint drone of a plane’s engines tapped the edges of my serenity that I realized how quiet this trail was. Just 10 miles and 20 minutes from the heart of Waikiki, Kuliouou Ridge Trail starts at the dead-end of a suburban road in Hawaii Kai. Within a half-mile on the rocky, tree-lined and switch-backing trail, I’d left the one-way streets, stoplights and pedestrian crosswalks behind. Far behind.
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Guest Blogger: Keryn Means Satisfies Her Pregnancy Cravings

Keryn Means on Fri 8/17/2012

Destination: Hawaii Island

"Normally, when we visit Hawaii, beaches are the first things we research. Not this trip. The number of dog-eared food pages in my guidebook was higher than my sunscreen SPF rating. Such is the life of a pregnant woman on vacation." Guest blogger Keryn Means shares her cravings from Hawaii (Big) Island.
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