Would you hike it ?

[Geary]

One of Hawaii's most dangerous day hikes, Puu Manamana trail above Crouching Lion ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPRD_tu9XN

"A woman died after falling off a trail in Windward Oahu Wednesday. The Honolulu Fire Department received a call for a hiker in distress at 4:48 p.m. on the Puu Manamana trail near Crouching Lion. Officials say the 22-year-old was with two other hikers when she fell 200 feet off the trail. Crews scoured the cliff face before finding her at around 5:30 p.m. She was airlifted to Swanzy Beach Park where she was pronounced dead.
KHON2*spoke with Marcus Griego of 808 Caveman Hiking Group about the hike, “It’s crazy. I see people doing crazy stuff all the time. These guys or gals are not properly equipped. I’m amazed that more people haven’t fallen with what these people are doing. It’s very crumbly and what people are doing is crazy. If you grab a wrong hold you could fall off.”
This isn’t the first time a hiker has encountered trouble on the trail. In March 2015, a man fell 20 feet down an embankment then slid another 150 feet. He survived. In June 2013, a 23-year-old woman slipped and fell 300 feet. Rescue crews rushed her to the hospital where she died.
Fire officials say Puu Manamana is very dangerous and the public should avoid such treacherous trails."

Female hiker killed in 200-foot fall off trail near Crouching Lion | KHON2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXl867y9wVc

[Dantilla]

I'd hike that in a heartbeat.

Hopefully I'd have the brains to swap the flip-flops for proper tennis shoes.

[sammyg2]

Every night I hear about someone getting run over crossing a street.

But i still cross streets.

[GH85Carrera]

Back in the days when I was a teenager living in Hawaii my mother decided my brother and I need something to do for the day. She signed us up for a nature hike. We met up at the ʻIolani Palace and a lady that looked like she was 90 to my 14 or 15 year old eyes was in charge. We noticed she had legs like a body builder. She insisted we each have a canteen and good shoes. We loaded up in a large van and off we went to the base of the mountain.

That "old lady" took off at a walking pace that almost exhausted us young teenagers. We just kept walking and ended up on a mountain ridge that was 2 feet wide with a steep tree covered drop down either side. At one point we got to a huge boulder that we had to use a rope to climb over. We got to a pretty open place and ate a sandwich. A few minutes we went right back down the same trail to the van.

When our mom picked us up she asked where we had hiked. We pointed at the mountains that separate the island and she was stunned that the day hike took us up there. We had to find that "old lady" that was likely 50 something to have her point out where we went before mom believed us. It is the stair step mountains they flew over in the opening of the original Hawaii 50 show. It has been too long to remember the name of the trail. It looked much like the photos in the story.

[Noah930]

It's the thought of the hike to the abandoned communications dish/outpost at the top of the mountains next to the H-3 tunnel that has me weak in the knees! Look down at your feet and you can see cliff drops to either side of you in your peripheral vision!

[tabs]

I want a 3 hour hike not a trip to oblivion.

Yeah I am not going to stop crossing the street but I aint gona try crossing an 8 lane Freeway.

[recycled sixtie]

No I would not likely do it. I did Wainwrights coast to coast trail in the UK. I walked part way with a Boy Scout Leader on that route. He asked me if I wanted to go on Striding Edge Lake District. I declined and he did it successfully.

If you google Striding Edge Lake District then you will see that it is very similar to the one in Hawaii mentioned above. Not worth the risk.

[vash]

i would. i think i'm smarter now. i would bring gear.

i almost died in my teens at Hueco Tanks.

[Tervuren]

There are other trails in Hawaii I'd choose over this, and as I can't do them all, probably not.

I typically do trails that are just a few miles long, if I feel like hiking more, I then double the trail I just took again, or take a different trail.

Sadly, my favorite trail around here, had the signage changed at its head. What was once a near single wide foot path up a 1,600 foot peak, is now an eroded crumbly mess, as cows starting trying to take it, cows that don't step from rock to rock to preserve the trail. Cows that walk on the dirt around the rocks, erode the dirt, and the rocks then fall away.

After the sign change at the park, in three months, the trail dropped 3 and a half feet of elevation in places. It gone from being a foot path, to a steeply side sloped eroded blot on the side of the mountain that is more than 10 feet wide in places.

The sign used to be something you had to walk up to read, it was descriptive, and to go the other way was a trail named after the park, so that is what the cows took. Now its a sign saying "two hours" in the largest font in the direction of what was my favorite trail, and a sign saying "three hours" in the other direction. The trail names are in smaller letters, and the difference in difficulty isn't even mentioned. (The three hour trail is two wide trail, graveled in, and with stairs in steep places, perfect for cows.)

I've been hiking this trail, with it largely unchanged, for almost a decade. Once the signs changed, the trail has been nearly destroyed.

[911 Rod]

Makes my sphincter tighten up just thinking about it.

[UconnTim97]

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I'd like to think I'd rip that up without worrying about it. I've done way more dangerous / technical stuff than that but it was pre-kids and I was younger and in a bit better shape.

Try regular old Half Dome and the knife-edge part of the Whitney trail - both much more pucker-inducing than that video (and those two are pretty straightforward too...)

[BK911]

Probably a few years ago.
Probably not now.
My brain has finally gotten larger than my cojones.

[mreid]

I hiked it in 1976 when I was in the navy. I was young and invincible. Along with several others in the vicinity.

We had an FNG show up on a Monday and then on Saturday he disappeared. The following Monday night he was on the news. Seemed he hiked up Aiea Heights, winding his way up through vegetation until the trail suddenly started back down, then got very steep and he slipped, sliding about 100 feet out of the vegitation landing on a small ledge about 800 feet up now on the windward side of the island. He spent two nights huddled on that ledge before someone way down below saw him and he was rescued. He didn't leave the ship much after that.

[rusnak]

Y'know, I bet there is some Hawaiian god that uses the trail to b'slap stupid people into the next life. Sort of like stupid people population control. So, no.

[Icemaster]

Yes. With the right partners and equipment, yes. I'll add that to the bucket list.

We make a regular trek to the Precipice, it's a decent trainer for something like that. I've seen people walking the narrowest sections of the Precipice and similar trails in flip flops, we stopped calling the 'tourists' and started referring to them openly as them 'donors'.

[Noah930]

Eddie would go.

[Cajundaddy]

Hmmm, I've hiked a lot of sketchy trails but that looks like loose decomposed volcanic cinder with a razor edge and the chance for 30kt gusts. Gonna pass thanks. Lots of better trails to choose.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPRD_tu9XN8

[WPOZZZ]

I don't like heights. No f'n way would I hike that.

[911 Rod]

I was using 3' x 6' scaffolding 3' off the ground to paint my garage walls and felt uneasy. lol