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Posts tagged with more-adventurous
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page 26: this one’s for kai
2017-11-03 03:56:21 UTCelliott and kai. sandy beach, oahu. august 2010 on the day i found out kai passed away, i was riding muni on my way to work, scrolling through facebook on my phone. alotta times when people talk about death, they talk around death. so no matter how much i clicked…
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page 13: prelude to makapuu
2017-09-14 03:01:00 UTCtyler skatin off makapuu lighthouse road. oahu. january 2010 it’s been a while since i’ve written about me adventures, but over the weekend, i listened to an episode of blamo!, the one where he interviews writer jon moy, and i got a kick in the ass to keep pushing myself…
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page 13: haiku stairs (stairway to heaven)
2017-07-29 05:50:00 UTClast mile, stairway to heaven, oahu. july 2011 stairway to heaven is one of my favorite hikes on oahu. it’s just a few miles long (no info online is consistent), and is made up of nearly 4,000 steps going up and over the ko’olau mountain range. the stairs were build…
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saltwater therapy
2017-06-27 07:07:00 UTCearlier this month, i went back home to oahu and spent a day surfing with eric and janelle at our homebreak in waikiki. we’ve had our fair share of surf days in california, but it’s been about 3 years since we’ve been able to surf together in this special place.…
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page 10: maunawili, 2012
2017-06-04 09:12:00 UTCmaunawili falls, oahu. july 2012 back in 2012, my friend aryan stayed in honolulu for a week and it was my first shot at being the best damn tour guide i’ve ever been to anyone. there are certain staples of home that i still love to show visitors, and this…
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page 9: waikiki etc
2017-05-11 04:40:00 UTCwaikiki beach, oahu. summer 2011
cockroach cove, oahu. summer 2010
waikiki beach, oahu. summer 2011 so here is where things get a little interesting and intimate. over the past week, i’ve been trying to figure out how i was going to talk about elliott. i knew the first photo above…
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page 8: lost in maunawili
2017-04-20 05:25:00 UTCmaunawili valley, oahu. february 2016 marcus and i got lost as fuck during our hike to maunawili falls during our oahu trip in february last year. but let me back it up a bit… the day started at 2 am. we’d just taken a nap after staying out the night…
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page 7: from here to eternity
2017-04-13 05:45:00 UTCnick and carmela halona/cockroach cove. july 2010 to be honest, i’ve never seen from here to eternity. and i heard about the movie after visiting this beach. this is halona cove. (i like “cockroach cove” better.) it’s not too far off a spot called halona blowhole, which is where a…
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page 6: kailua beach ed
2017-04-08 23:55:00 UTCtide pools at the far east side of kailua beach. august 2010 one of the best things about shooting with a plastic camera is that its expected, okay, and charmingly modest to come out with shit pics. but sometimes the real appeal is in the story - what happened that…
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page 5: waimano home road
2017-03-21 04:48:00 UTCsomewhere in pearl city, oahu. january 2011 to be honest, i don’t remember most details from this day. but from what i can recall, i spent the morning at the aloha stadium swap meet with one of my best friends eduard. it was some day over christmas break, and we…
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page 4: alan davis
2017-03-03 01:22:00 UTCalan davis, oahu. summer 2011 this is alan davis. from what i remember being told, years ago, someone dragged a fallen telephone pole from the street to this beach, lodged it into the rocky shore, and laid it out as a plank to jump into the ocean. alan davis is…
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page 3: pali puka
2017-02-24 06:49:00 UTCsomewhere near pali puka, oahu. february 2016 this was photo was taken about an hour after marcus landed on oahu and met my parents for the first time. pali puka is a quick hike that veers off from pali lookout, taking you through a small bamboo forrest, then a steep,…
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page 2: da spread
2017-02-16 05:35:00 UTCwaimea bay, oahu. february 2016 the north shore’s foodland holds a pretty close place in my heart. whenever i leave town and head up for a day trip to haleiwa, foodland’s a mandatory pit stop. and not just for me, but for so many other locals and non-locals on that…
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page 1: kuliouou, last leg
2017-02-09 05:09:00 UTCkuliouou ridge trail, oahu. february 2016 we headed to hike kuliouou…of course hung over from the previous night. the hike is only four miles long, but the trip up catches up with you quick. the area is just one ridge of a handful on the east side of the island.…
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a super first-hand account: turning 25 up north
2016-07-09 22:10:00 UTCi carry around this handy pink moleskine whenever i travel somewhere relatively far out of the city. i brought my travel notebook and camera with me last july on a backpacking trip to lassen volcanic national park for my 25th birthday. when i got this roll developed, i realized i…
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half dome rejected me in june
2016-06-11 22:44:00 UTCif you’ve ever applied for a raffle ticket to hike half dome in the summertime, you understand how it’s practically impossible (at least now) to do so. i applied not once, but three times, and got turned away all the way up to the night before the hike. at that…