{"id":38980,"date":"2013-10-07T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=38980"},"modified":"2013-10-07T13:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:19:11","slug":"kaau-crater-hiking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=38980","title":{"rendered":"Kaau Crater Hiking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo12.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo12.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38982\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni had such a great time this morning with Mr. and Mrs. Naganuma.  i met them at the Love Hawaii Collection in Yokohama earlier this year.  they fell in love with hawaii 3 years ago and think about hawaii everyday since.  Mr. Naganuma hasn&#8217;t surfed in 21 years so today was a nervous day for him.  but as soon as he stood up, everything came back.  he surfed really well and i&#8217;m sure surfing is in the blood again.  thank you for the wonderful day.  keep on surfing and keep on hawaii!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kaau-crater-march-2008-023.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kaau-crater-march-2008-023-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"kaau-crater-march-2008-023\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38981\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe mountain behind my house is called Kaau Crater.  it&#8217;s a popular hike but very dangerous.  a young girl died while hiking yesterday.  i hear search and rescue helicopters every week from my house.  it&#8217;s a trail i wouldn&#8217;t recommend unless you want to risk your life.  but the thing that keeps people coming back is the view.  freakin awesome!  i&#8217;ve hiked it a few times and no other trail has a better view from the top of this mountain.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kaau-crater-107.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/kaau-crater-107.jpg\" alt=\"kaau-crater-107\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38983\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis is the waterfall about an hour up the trail.  very peaceful and very spiritual.  after you pass the waterfall, the hike starts to get dangerous.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0628.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0628-480x640.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0628\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38984\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe last part is a super steep hike.  going up is the easy part, coming down is the hard part.  you actually have to slide down and hope you don&#8217;t fall off the side of the cliffs.  but on the top of this mountain you can see the whole south, east, and west side of the island.  a 360 degree magnificent view!  it takes over 3.5 hours to get to the top and here&#8217;s my advise.  when you drive up the valley and see clouds on the top of the mountain, forget it.  you will be in the clouds and won&#8217;t see a thing.  this is when people start getting lost.  wait for a clear day, take lots of water, take your rubbish home, and make sure you tell somebody where you are because even advanced hikers get stranded.  good luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i had such a great time this morning with Mr. and Mrs. Naganuma. i met them at the Love Hawaii Collection in Yokohama earlier this year. they fell in love with hawaii 3 years ago and think about hawaii everyday since. Mr. Naganuma hasn&#8217;t surfed in 21 years so today was a nervous day for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}