Sacred Falls
I don’t usually post links to other people’s stuff, but this one is worth clicking on.
These guys climbed up to the Koʻolau ridgeline… and then climbed DOWN the waterfalls at Sacred Falls. Oh lord! There’s a good reason why the valley was closed in 1999 after eight hikers were killed at the base of the falls by falling boulders; it’s just too dangerous to risk allowing people in now that we know that the rock is unstable. These photos are gorgeous and terrifying and utterly insane.
April 15th, 2007 at 7:37 pm
Wow…. Yes, gorgeous, terrifying and utterly insane. But I bet it’s the only way we get to see shots like this.
I wonder if any of the ancient Hawaiians ever tried it.
Mahalo for the link… breathtaking photos!
April 16th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Yet more proof that the gods protect the fools. Banana heads!
May 11th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
In 1963 I was 11 yrs old, I watched someone dive off the waterfall and get knocked out, and now I hear this is all closed off, I am sorry, it is dangerous, but so are many things, and it’s a shame that you can’t go there anymore and then slide down those slimy rocks. HA is so different now, I went back after 43 yrs, I couldn’t get any archived photos at Pearl Harbor Kai Ele, all the navy housing was gone, only the 5th street sign and the monkey-pod tree was there so I could pinpoint our townhouse, no pictures from the 60′s, I can’t find any on-line, that’s even sader, I was an only child and didn’t get pictures when parents passed, caretaker did, nothing was the same when I went last yr, the Dole tower, the smell of sugar cane and pineapple, no myna birds in the trees where I used to live, the smell was there though and I had a connection, that was unreal. Too many houses and freeways, thanks to Hawaiian Eye, Hawaii 5-0 and Magnum PI, I suppose. All that greenery around that area, it’s all gone, it was sad. I bought the lehing mui seeds and cried on the way home.