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Nohea
Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
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Topic Author's Original Post - Dec 29, 2008 - 03:38am PT
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I know many of you have done some long hikes or made some effort to make a FA. I go to Lanai about 4-6 times a year and damn might end up retiring there. So I spend the past week on Lanai where I went for a ride. My goal was to find one section of cliffs I seen from a boat that looked pretty solid, I was able to climb up about 15 feet from the water. My plan is to go back and camp, rap down the cliff, and do some climbing. We’ll see…
The trail starts out easy enough…
Past the new solar farm…
My idea of airport security
Then the trail starts to disappear…
I look to the west…Hmmm, need to borrow a boat and check those out.
And to the east….down there (center of photo) is where I was meaning to go, just before the point, where its only maybe 100 ft high? That is where I’ll go camping in a couple months and see if there’s any good climbing.
Time to head home after I stop for a self portrait.
My question out there is, tell me about what efforts or stories were made just trying to get to the cliffs? or will you join in June?
Cheers,
wil
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Dec 29, 2008 - 10:59am PT
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I know that crag. Glad you hiked up there so I didn't have to. DMT- There's a few other crags around there that I've been meaning to ask you about- also visible from the road.
Tom
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Dec 29, 2008 - 11:04am PT
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Jeez DMT, that adventure of yours deserves its own thread!
Nohea, good luck to you. Sometimes the volcanic can work out just fine if you keep hunting and stumble into the right spot.
Check this out. One of my oldest climbing partners, many big walls and even El-Cap routes, lives on Lanai. He mostly hunts with his dogs these days, don't know how many years since he did a climb. Still he might know something about that which ye seek.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Dec 29, 2008 - 11:10am PT
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'Eh Aloha Nohea:
I saw the tag line and thought you perhaps were checking out down by Manele or Kaumalapau bays.
That backside does have some good sized cliffs, rock quality being the first concern I would imagine.
I need to get out to my house on the big Island sometime soon. The soon being when I can afford it. I would like it to be way before June, say mid March to mid April. However more likely it could draw out till June, either way when I do get me arse out there I would love to hook up and do some climbing on O'ahu /and/or Maui, but a Lana'i excursion would be interesting, it is the one island beside Ni'ihau that I have not been to. (Yep spent a week on Kaho'olawe once ;)
So let's stay in touch on that one ^
cool site:
Cool Island Geology site
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Dingus:
Have you seen the Moloka'i sea cliffs?
I believe they are the biggest in the world.
What a land slide that must'a been!
They are not so much chossy as totally vege'd over.
I do recall seeing some descent, solid rock on the East end, Halawa side.
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Captain...or Skully
Trad climber
North of the Owyhees
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Dec 29, 2008 - 11:14am PT
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Actually, Survival, it HAS it's own thread.
Excuse, pls, if you're utilizing that dry wit.
:-)
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Dec 29, 2008 - 11:20am PT
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Capt. S, actually I hadn't seen the other thread, but I love the approach epic, that's great.
Man, that last picture from HI is a killer.
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Dapper Dan
climber
Menlo Park
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Dec 29, 2008 - 01:03pm PT
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Dingus says give me the thread and no one gets hurt
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Nohea
Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 29, 2008 - 02:24pm PT
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DMT that is some nice work put into getting there, next time I will bring wine with me for good luck. The many efforts helps with the motivation.
Eh Survival, Damn I go to Lanai all the time, would bet your friend knows my father in law, he is the old man of the town. I’ll be back in June for a couple weeks and would enjoy having a drink with the guy.
TB, I have sailed the north shore of Molokai a few times, slowing to look for a good place and it was on the east side near Halawa that looked like it had potential and then Mr. Braun of Yosemite said he did some photo shoot or something around there but I don’t go there 5x’s/year. But do let me know when you come out. I have climbed around south point. Well it was a TV ad lemme find a pic…
Not the best rock but here’s the helo shooting us pretending to climb. It showed in Japan.
Thanks all,
wil
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Dec 29, 2008 - 04:40pm PT
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Nohea (Wil), drop me an email next time you're getting ready to go out there and I'd be glad to hook you up with numbers for Rob. He would love to have a climber stop by and visit.
You best be ready for more than one drink......bring your bivy sack.
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Nohea:
Sweet shot !
Cool jump'n off the clifs there at Sou' Point and that ladder climb back up,, the one on the west side that the fisherman use.
My first time at South Point I was driving back to Puna after a pub crawl in Kailua town. I decided to go down there and crash in the bed of my truck. All night I kept hearing low rumbling/booming sounds that sounded like an empty 18 wheeler hitting bumps. Morning light revealed that I had parked my truck about 200' from that 'blow hole', Man was I glad I just crashed and did not wander to far from the truck that night!
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Survival:
Rob ? as in Lescher ?
(last heard he was on Maui)
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dingus, how do you avoid disturbing the sediment in the wine on approaches like that?
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Trundle,
Yes Rob as in Lesher. He is on Lanai and has been for a long time now. Just talked to him. Amazing how disconnected from your past life you can get if you have a mind to....It's kinda like Yosemite is a different universe to him now.
Nohea, he does want you to stop in though!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
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Tom Woods, there's no other crags around there. These aren't the droids you're looking for.
;)
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Nohea
Trad climber
Aiea,Hi
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 7, 2009 - 03:24am PT
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That sounds great Survival. I will be over there for most of June and will get his info from you before I go. I would like to borrow a boat and just take a week checking out that side of the Island. We'll see.
At south point it is pretty cool jumping off the south end of the Island. The fishermen have an interesting series of ladders to get up some of the steeper areas.
Aloha,
wil
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