{"id":655,"date":"2015-07-09T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T03:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/?p=655"},"modified":"2015-07-09T23:31:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T04:31:15","slug":"the-wiliwilinui-ridge-trail-in-oahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/the-wiliwilinui-ridge-trail-in-oahu\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wiliwilinui Ridge Trail in Oahu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wiliwilinui Ridge Trail in Oahu
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The condo our parents rented in Oahu was awesome.\u00a0 We will post information about the VRBO experience and about the condo we used in the Waikiki Lanais in a separate post.\u00a0 The owner, Sana, was awesome and really made our stay great.<\/p>\n

Our parents asked about hikes and Sana suggested the Wiliwilinui Ridge Trail.<\/p>\n

We are a hiking lot with 5 seasoned hikers and backpackers so off we went.\u00a0 The youngest brother in our group of 3 is Big Willie or the Wilverine as he likes to call himself.\u00a0 We had to do a trail of the same name.<\/p>\n

Here is a map of the trail<\/a> from Google.\u00a0 You will take Laukahi Street from H1 \/ 72 going east from Waikiki or Honolulu.\u00a0 It is easy to find and very near Diamond Head.\u00a0 You will drive for what seems like days and finally reach a guard station.\u00a0 The trail head is located in an upscale gated neighborhood.\u00a0 We felt very comfortable leaving our car.<\/p>\n

\"Guard<\/a><\/p>\n

The guard was super nice and gave up a parking sign for our car, after scanning my mom’s ID.<\/p>\n

\"Parking<\/a>
Parking pass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There is a parking lot at the trail head and plenty of parking.<\/p>\n

\"Wiliwilinui<\/a><\/p>\n

\"IMG_6016\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The trail starts off pretty calm and for about the first 2 miles, it is scenic and calm.<\/p>\n

\"First<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Yonder<\/a>
Yonder stance in action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There were some amazingly large trees on the trail.<\/p>\n

\"Hiding<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Giant<\/a>
Giant tree<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last half mile is roughly 700 feet of straight up incline.
\nWilverine is only 5 and he hiked the whole thing, while persistently chattering about the geneology & hierarchy of Bionnicles. (That was fun…)<\/p>\n

\"Starting<\/a>
Starting the stairs of doom<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We were bouldering and rock climbing with ropes for much of the 700 feet.<\/p>\n

\"Getting<\/a>
Getting steeper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Ropes<\/a><\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>
View from near the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
<\/a>Made it up and heading back down.<\/div>\n
\"Heading<\/a>
Heading back down the ridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"IMG_6185\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There is a cool swing at the 1\/2 way point.<\/p>\n

\"Don't<\/a>
Don’t miss the swing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was fun and every one of us survived, but it was tough.<\/p>\n

\"View<\/a>
View of Waikiki from the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Fog<\/a>
Fog rolling in at the top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The entire hike was about 5 miles and it took up easily 4 hours.
\nWe took a few breaks, but this hike takes a while.<\/p>\n

Was it worth it?\u00a0 For sure.<\/strong>
\nThis was our top hike in Oahu.
\nWe hiked Diamond Head, Koko Head, Makapu’u Lighthouse, and the Manana Trail to the Waimano Falls\/Pools.
\nIf you are in Oahu, make time for the Wiliwilinui hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wiliwilinui Ridge Trail in Oahu The condo our parents rented in Oahu was awesome.\u00a0 We will post information about the VRBO experience and about the condo we used in the Waikiki Lanais in a separate post.\u00a0 The owner, Sana, was awesome and really made our stay great. Our parents asked about hikes and Sana suggested … Continue reading The Wiliwilinui Ridge Trail in Oahu<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.roadtrippingforkids.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}