Hi there. If you found this site you must be either looking for serious running adventures on the Big Island or you heard about the nut that likes to do them. Below you’ll find the articles I’ve put together describing the last set of adventures I’ve completed: running from the Sea to the Summit of all 5 Big Island Volcanoes. My latest challenge is to run/swim/hike the entire Hamakua from Waipio to Pololu in under a day and I’ve been sharing the training and exploring of this route in the articles below. Yo
This is basically part 2 of my training and exploring from Waipi’o to Waimanu. For this run though, I needed to get to Waimanu Valley Beach and then swim the 3/4 of a mile out to the next travellable landmass – Laupahoehoe Iki. This section is the start to a spectacular 4-mile coastline of cliffs…
This adventure is a bit of a departure from my latest challenges. I wanted to get into the Honopue Valley from Pololu and though on maps it shows a trail all the way to the back of the Honopue Valley, this is not a trail that you can run very much of. In fact, this…