OK...they warn you ahead of time that this is a pretty good hike, up to the top of Diamondhead monument and state park. And it is, pretty much a trail that is all steep elevations, and at the end, throw in some long staircases, some tunnels dug through lava flows, and with the hot humid weather, you have yourself a pretty good little workout. In fact, we saw a couple of people who use this as a workout, one guy running and one girl walking very fast.
But we held up very well. The killer is right at the end...when you really think you are there, you come out of a tunnel and turn the corner to be faced with a VERY long staircase that looks like it goes straight up. It is a soul killer. In fact, one woman was just sitting at the lookout point right there, watching everyone expression as they turned that corner. My strategy was to take a moment at the lookout point, put my head down, put it in first and just keep moving, slow and steady. But that is a killer stairway!
The view from the top is spectacular. As we were going up, one woman coming down suggested that we should not bother and just buy a postcard, but I have to disagree. It was worth it. You can see so much of the southern coastline of Oahu from there, and it just looks beautiful. You know, as you wipe the sweat away from your eyes.
Coming back down used a different set of muscles, but was much faster than going up. We had packed a lunch, making our own cooler out of plastic ABC store bags, putting ice in one, our O-Bento (Japanese boxed lunches) on top of that, and putting another bag of ice on top of the lunches. So we had a picnic at the bottom and then bought some Hawaiian shaved ice from the truck that was in the lot there. And it tasted GOOD. So refreshing!
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