The Journey of Dave: Olomana (The Three Peaks) Hike

Kris made a post about this hike a long time ago but since I am so far behind in my posts and I refuse to do them out of chronological order, I'm just getting to it now. I just re-looked at Topher's post and mine might seem like a repeat if you saw his but I do add some new pictures and I have video! To see his post click here but look at mine first if you haven't already seen his so it seems like he copied my pictures. :-)

This is the Oklahoman Hike. Also nick named 3 peaks hike because there are three peaks you can hike too. Many people stop at the first peak because it offers the best view but we of course did them all.

We parked the car and can see our first destination.

Here is a nice little old run down shack and large creepy tree. I'm sure no evil monsters live here when it gets dark. Note to self, get back to the car before dark.

Here's Topher playing with a large snail. Hopefully Topher does not upset the snail because it is probably buddies with the big evil monster.

These are just trees...but I'm sure you knew that already.

This is while we were on our wild boar hunt! We heard sounds but saw no pigs. Although Topher was ready to shoot it if we did... with his camera of course.

Just a little farther now to the first peak. (Note, if you're Sheldon that was sarcasm.)

There is a lot of red dirt here caused by the high amounts of iron from the volcano lava.

There are a lot more pine trees on this island than I would have guessed. These were nice soft pine needle trees. I think that is actually there name, 'Nice Soft Pine Needle Pine Tree'.

So soft you could easily take a nap in them.

We have made it to the steeper part of the hike. So up we go!

It was rather cloudy when we made it to the top of peak one but here is the view.

This is looking at peak two on the left, and peak three on the right. Peak three is either making clouds or will erupt soon. We should probably go check it out... you know, for science reasons.

As indicated by Topher's camera strap, it was quite windy on top.

Down we go, so we can go up again, and then back down, and then back up, then turn around and do it all in reverse. Why do I like hiking again? Oh yea, this view.

Some of the clouds cleared out and this is the view from peak two.

Peak three

The trail got steep at some points.

A video of Topher's climb down.

There's Topher on the other side taking pictures of peak two while I take a picture of peak three.

If you saw Topher's blog this is where he took the picture of his shoes and the edges of the rock he was standing on.

Another short video clip of Topher 'hiking'. You might notice the video seems a little wavy. That is because I can't hold a camera steady and the wave is the effect of YouTube fixing my shaky hand.

This is the view from peak three.

Peak one on the left, peak two on the right.

This is the trail on top of peak three.

This little army guy was keeping this peak safe from evil intruders... oh wait, the evil monster... time to go! (Mouse over to see what's in the distance.)

Well it's time to go back down.

They have colorful rocks and moss here.

This is Topher in a tree. Why is he in a tree? Well for one, why not, and for a second, I think he has a tree climbing addiction.

We are back to peak one now and some of the clouds have moved on. So I took more pictures.

This is the Koʻolau Mountain Range, which is not a typical mountain range. This was one mountain but in prehistoric times the entire eastern half, including much of the summit, slid cataclysmically into the Pacific Ocean. [source] Because you know I didn't come up "cataclysmically" myself.