Day Two

Day two was all about hiking. We had to head back to the airport (continuing counter clockwise so now we went through the high rent district) to pick up our rental car (a convertable PT cruiser) so we continued through to the valley to the East end. We were thrilled to see Haleakala was unclouded (a rare event, apparently) so we headed up the mountain. 20 minutes and a vigous political debate later Martin realizes that we are likely about to run out of gas (his gauge is broken). Fortunately it's all down hill back to the gas station but now the mountain is clouding over.
So we head off to hike mile 6, aka "The Indiana Jones Hike", and described by another visitor as "The four falls".

This hike is everything I hoped to encounter. The photo shows the low key entrance into a bamboo forest. Follow the trail down to the stream bed and soon you're boulder hopping upstream to see four falls varying from 5 to 40 feet in height. The last, the tallest, is impassable as a shear cliff face but with a deep pool beneath into which we jumped from a 12 foot cliff. To get here we had to climb lots of rocks, scale a slippery slope, climb a knotted rope, and swim a long pool. A great adventure and Christopher held his own making me terribly proud!

Peter Mueller
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