Paddling: January 2009 Archives
“With camping gear and an overnight permit in hand, we chose the long route, a 22-mile round-trip hike that would take us past Hanakapi’ai to one of the island’s most secluded beaches, Kalalau Beach. To get there, we followed the Kalalau Trail through dense tropical forests where the trees had leaves the size of refrigerators and often drooped over the trail.” In the Boston Globe, Kari Bodnarchuk describes both the relaxing and the high-tension elements of exploring what travel writers have long considered one of the most beautiful islands on earth.