People can drive up and gaze over the dramatic landscapes or take a short walk to the valley floors.
I wanted to do more than that - to hike far away and explore places rarely seen. It was my fantasy to be in the back of a valley, with an enormous waterfall crashing by my camp. So, before school would take all of my free time, I decided to hike the Kohala Ditch trail. With permission from the Chalon Corporation and the Sproats who live and own areas on the trail, my father and I started from the top of Pololu. We went back, farther and farther, going under waterfalls and getting lost often because of an overgrown, seldom-hiked path.