The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-07-24
CONCISE INFORMATION ON WAYS
AND MEANS.
After Reading This one May start
Where to go and What To Take.


Where to go and What to Take.
How do you get to the lava flow and
the spouting volcano? is question
hundreds of people have asked.
1t is proposed here to give a full and
authentic answer to that question.
! In the first place the answer will de-
! pend on what you want to see. If you
want to go right to the very source of
| the flow, right to where the lava is be-
! ing thrown from the center OF the earth,
/ to stand face to face with Pele. go to
the Volcano House and make your
| start from there. There are two trails
! from there by each of which parties
have actually gone to the spouting vol
! Cano. One of these trails leads up
through the Shipman ranch to the flow
of 1880 and thence right up that flow
! for thirteen miles to the volcano. The
other trail leads up on the Kau side and
over some old flows, but gets you to the
| same point. Each involves a trip of at
! least three days and more likely four
| from the Volcano House to the spout
| ing volcano and back.
AS the trails are becoming better
| known and the requirements for the
| trip better understood this route is be-
! coming easier, can be made with less
| hard work and the time required is be-
| cano House is the only route so far
found to actually get to the spouting
| cone.
1t is in many respects a hard trip. but
| any healthy man of fair strength, rea-
sonable powers of endurance, good tenn
per and pluck, can make it. No woman
ought to undertake it unless she is sure
she has the physical power to stand the
| trip.
But no one can make the trip without
feeling well repaid for all the labor and
hardship.
If you want a grand panoramic view
of all the sources of eruption, the spout
ing cone and the smoking mountains,
but without actually going to them,
! with the whole mountainside alive with
streams of lava and glowing flows of
a-a, go to Kawaihae or Honokaa,
thence by stage or on horseback
| through Waimea to Kaaieha on the
Humuula Sheep Station Company s
property From this point you can see
the spouting volcano, at a distance. but
near enough to get a clear idea with
out field glasses, of it's action. You can
get to the foot of the flow without great
difficulty and see a river of flowing lava
and typical a-a flow. This Is not a
summer days picnic by any means but
it does not call for the powers of endur-
ance that the other does and women
can make it more easily. on this route
one need not walk except to get TO the
? end of the flow from kalaieha. This is
: hard walk but can be made in less
than day.
If you determine to go to the spoutlnG
volcano you will outfit at the Volcano
House You will need a horse and a
: guide, provisions for the trip, can
teens sufficient to carry a gallon Of wa.
ter, rain coat of some kind and q
blanket. party starting from the
Volcano House ought to have tent lCl
the first nights camp at the timber lno
going up and for the last nights cdmI
2 at The same place coming down. L
[ will be left with the horses when the
} walking begins unless you have plenty
of helpers to carry it up. But on,
nights camp can be made at the spout
: ing cone without a tent.
( Take your blankets, rain coats. prov
. siOns and canteens with you to the Vol
? cano House. Depend on getting moth
| ing there but horses and guides. StronI
shoes are a sine qua non. Take tw,
I pair. Lava wears out shoes wonder
1 fully fast.
e In the matter of provisions don't TAX
1 salty articles which induce thirst
4 Chocolate Is one good article. 1t i
S easily carried and is sustaining. Don
d take beer or liquor; they induce NOR
thirst than the heat or the exercise
S The first half of the trail is marked b.
lHe empty Deer DOllleS anu ueHllJOnH
1 of parties who never got to the tor
e There are no beer bottles or demijohn
a along the upper half of the trail. Rol
your blanket up full length with eV
erything else you carry, except you
canteen, inside it, and carry it over you
shoulder as soldiers do theirs. An Al
[ pine stock is good thing.
If you go to see the grand panorami
/; view down the side of the mountain an,
/. to the foot of the flow, you will go T.
; Kawaihae or Honokaa and take stag
: or saddle horse there for Waimea A
[ Wamea you will outfit, that is, yol
will get a horse or a conveyance T.
take you over an easy but dusty roa,
thirty-seven miles to Kalaieha. Yol
must leave Waimea prepared to cam
out until you return there. You mus
, carry water with you for the trip t.
? Pohakuloa seven miles this side of I[a
: laieha, and means to carry water fror
! | Pohakauloa to your camp at Kalaiena
There is no water at Kaaieha. Whe
you have established your camp al IA
. laieha, you can walk to the foot of IN
! flow and as far up the flow as so
" choose to go, carrying nothing but wa
ter and a little lunch. You can't &c
up to the spouting cone by this route.
The conVeniences for both of thes
trips are being constantly improved a
q the trails are becoming better know
and the requirements better under
stood But 1t is best to go well equiI
, ped depending on securing nothin
" either at the Volcano House or at Wa
- mea, except horses and guides.
i You will be repaid whichever rout
s. you take.
rs "I have used Chamberlain's Coug
TlaV, In fgy.