Makamaka'ole'ole Stream LbNA #7169
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Feb 1, 2004 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Waihee |
| County: | Maui |
| State: | Hawaii |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Playmakers  |
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| Found by: | Choi |
| Last found: | Feb 7, 2015 |
| Status: | aO |
| Last edited: | Jan 4, 2016 |
Description
Letterbox visited & confirmed by Playmakers - Feb. 14/07
This is a somewhat adventurous hike involving over a dozen stream crossings and/or boulder hopping, so water shoes would be helpful. The hike will take just over an hour to get to a wonderful series of waterfalls.
Start your hike from just over 8/10 mile past the 7 mile marker on Highway 340, the only road that goes around West Maui from the capitol of Wailuku. There is a turn out for 3 or 4 cars on the mauka, or uphill, side of the road and room for a couple of vehicles on the opposite, or makai, side of the road. Just ahead you will see a small bridge over the Makamaka’ole’ole Stream. Start your hike on the trail at the left of the bridge.
The hike will follow a path that goes back and forth across the stream through beautiful, fairly sheltered foliage. You are always close to the stream, so getting lost should not be a problem.
The 12th stream crossing will take you onto a small island. Follow the trail on the island to the top end of the island and then bear right across the stream and onto the trail. The first waterfall is just around the corner.
If you climb above the first waterfall with its small pool, there is another bigger, more beautiful waterfall and pool and a sheer wall with a rope to assist the adventurous who want to climb this wall to even more adventure. If you get out in the small pool underneath the 1st waterfall and look up the waterfall, you will see the second waterfall clearly in the background.
When you have had enough of this tributary of the Makamaka’ole’ole Stream, you will head back downstream. After a hundred plus yards, you will be back at the small island in the stream. On your way upstream, you went through this island and stayed to the right to get to the aforementioned waterfalls. There is another nice waterfall up the main stream off to your right that meets the tributary at the top of this island. This waterfall requires about a 20 minute hike up the stream bed and is a much less traveled route.
This area has been designated ‘Hawaiian Homelands’ by Congress, so please be respectful. After 6 stream crossings, you will go through a beautiful bamboo grove littered with Hawaiian ruins.
Nearby there is a place called Kukuipuka, a refuge where ancient Hawaiian lawbreakers could escape a terrible death by coming to this designated ‘safe’ area. In ancient Hawaiian times, there were many seemingly ridiculous laws to keep the order. For example, men and women were forbidden to eat together; citizens were not allowed to get close to a chief or allow their shadows to fall across him, etc. The penalty for anyone breaking the law was a torturous death and may have included the entire family. Kukuipuka offered asylum to lawbreakers and defeated warriors who would be required to perform certain rituals set by the ‘Kapuna Pule’ or Priest. At the end of performance of the rituals, all was forgiven and the lawbreaker could return home a free man, while the defeated warriors could declare a new allegiance to whoever won and live in peace.
The entire hike is upstream, however, the elevation gain is not serious.
We would hope that you will do the entire hike (it’s definitely worth it) so the specific letterbox clues, after leading you on the hike, are for the return trip.
Clues
On the return trip downstream, you will cross the stream to the left after passing through the bamboo grove.
In about 32 paces, there is a step across the trail. About 6 more paces downstream from this step, there is a large rock on the left side of the trail with a long flat edge on the left side.
Sight along the top ridge of this rock and look uphill.
There is a large tree about 20 paces uphill from where you will be sighting from the front of the large rock.
This tree holds an Hawaiian "Aloha" for all successful Letterboxers. The letterbox is hidden in the crotch of the tree about 4' above the ground.
There are several sticks stuck in the hiding spot to protect and hide the Letterbox. Please make sure the Letterbox is again well secured and camoflaged once you have returned it to its place of rest.
Hint: While heading downstream, if you get to a white water pipe across the trail, you have gone about 130 paces too far. The large rock with the flat edge is now behind you.
For the less adventurous, the large rock with the flat edge is located about 125 paces upstream from the 5th river crossing.
Please contact us by email at: peter@brill.ca to let us know you found this box and the condition it is in, plus any other comments you may have. Thank you and enjoy the hike!.
Happy Letterboxing!
Letterbox visited & confirmed by Playmakers - Feb. 14/07
This is a somewhat adventurous hike involving over a dozen stream crossings and/or boulder hopping, so water shoes would be helpful. The hike will take just over an hour to get to a wonderful series of waterfalls.
Start your hike from just over 8/10 mile past the 7 mile marker on Highway 340, the only road that goes around West Maui from the capitol of Wailuku. There is a turn out for 3 or 4 cars on the mauka, or uphill, side of the road and room for a couple of vehicles on the opposite, or makai, side of the road. Just ahead you will see a small bridge over the Makamaka’ole’ole Stream. Start your hike on the trail at the left of the bridge.
The hike will follow a path that goes back and forth across the stream through beautiful, fairly sheltered foliage. You are always close to the stream, so getting lost should not be a problem.
The 12th stream crossing will take you onto a small island. Follow the trail on the island to the top end of the island and then bear right across the stream and onto the trail. The first waterfall is just around the corner.
If you climb above the first waterfall with its small pool, there is another bigger, more beautiful waterfall and pool and a sheer wall with a rope to assist the adventurous who want to climb this wall to even more adventure. If you get out in the small pool underneath the 1st waterfall and look up the waterfall, you will see the second waterfall clearly in the background.
When you have had enough of this tributary of the Makamaka’ole’ole Stream, you will head back downstream. After a hundred plus yards, you will be back at the small island in the stream. On your way upstream, you went through this island and stayed to the right to get to the aforementioned waterfalls. There is another nice waterfall up the main stream off to your right that meets the tributary at the top of this island. This waterfall requires about a 20 minute hike up the stream bed and is a much less traveled route.
This area has been designated ‘Hawaiian Homelands’ by Congress, so please be respectful. After 6 stream crossings, you will go through a beautiful bamboo grove littered with Hawaiian ruins.
Nearby there is a place called Kukuipuka, a refuge where ancient Hawaiian lawbreakers could escape a terrible death by coming to this designated ‘safe’ area. In ancient Hawaiian times, there were many seemingly ridiculous laws to keep the order. For example, men and women were forbidden to eat together; citizens were not allowed to get close to a chief or allow their shadows to fall across him, etc. The penalty for anyone breaking the law was a torturous death and may have included the entire family. Kukuipuka offered asylum to lawbreakers and defeated warriors who would be required to perform certain rituals set by the ‘Kapuna Pule’ or Priest. At the end of performance of the rituals, all was forgiven and the lawbreaker could return home a free man, while the defeated warriors could declare a new allegiance to whoever won and live in peace.
The entire hike is upstream, however, the elevation gain is not serious.
We would hope that you will do the entire hike (it’s definitely worth it) so the specific letterbox clues, after leading you on the hike, are for the return trip.
Clues
On the return trip downstream, you will cross the stream to the left after passing through the bamboo grove.
In about 32 paces, there is a step across the trail. About 6 more paces downstream from this step, there is a large rock on the left side of the trail with a long flat edge on the left side.
Sight along the top ridge of this rock and look uphill.
There is a large tree about 20 paces uphill from where you will be sighting from the front of the large rock.
This tree holds an Hawaiian "Aloha" for all successful Letterboxers. The letterbox is hidden in the crotch of the tree about 4' above the ground.
There are several sticks stuck in the hiding spot to protect and hide the Letterbox. Please make sure the Letterbox is again well secured and camoflaged once you have returned it to its place of rest.
Hint: While heading downstream, if you get to a white water pipe across the trail, you have gone about 130 paces too far. The large rock with the flat edge is now behind you.
For the less adventurous, the large rock with the flat edge is located about 125 paces upstream from the 5th river crossing.
Please contact us by email at: peter@brill.ca to let us know you found this box and the condition it is in, plus any other comments you may have. Thank you and enjoy the hike!.
Happy Letterboxing!