Jeff and I are doing some trip planning, and I just put together a 10 day trip on the Big Island of Hawai'i. I'm not sure exactly when we'll get there, but when we do, we'll be ready with an epic itinerary!
If Pu'u O'o Vent isn't going absolutely insane and spewing tons of lava every which way (note black section at bottom right of map with glowing orange), we'll start from Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park headquarters (near where it says Volcano--a cute little town--on the map) and venture into the East Rift Zone along a chain of craters where we'll see a variety of different volcanic features. After that, we will hitch up Chain of Craters Road and descend into an older flow that is now somewhere between savanna and desert, down to a secluded beach. We will hike southwest along the coast and then back up through the desert all the way up to HVNP headquarters again and take a little break in the misty cool air.
The second leg of the trip is a summit of 13,679 foot tall Mauna Loa--the largest volcano in the world by volume, and back down via the historic Hawaiian Ainapo trail. The Big Island of Hawai'i has 11 of the roughly 13 climate zones*, and though this trip isn't a particularly long one, we'll pass through most of them. I am pretty excited.
* Deciding how many climate zones there are is a vociferous debate among academics
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1 comments:
count me in on this, i want to come.
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