The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1910-08-06
Mountain
Climbing
Will be Essayed by the Trail
and Mountain Club.


ize a Trail and Mountain Club
which will seek to reopen two or
more of the across the lao noun
ain-range trails, once commonly
used in olden times.
One of these trails followed the
lao stream into the fastness of Ka-
pela, where it crossed precipitous
ridge, now so overgrown with rank
mountain brush that for fifty years
past it has been lost trail. Its
very location has been forgotten,
except at one time parties have
crossed over from Lahaina to Wal
luku, or vice vesa by going up Lau-
niupoko and down the lao Valley
to Wailuku. The trail would be
classed a pleasant myth, but for the
written accounts given by parties
who crossed the mountain by said
trail. The most notable account be-
ing that of Princess Nahienaena and
| Mrs. Judd, who were carried over
by sure-footed mountaineers on
"maneles", whatever such contrap-
tions are, from Wailuku over the
mountains to Lahaina on the other
side. That may be the custom then,
but the members of the Trail and
Mountain will sidestep from this
sort of burden carrying,
| However, a healthy desire to
emulate or excel in mountain climb
ing feats is abroad, and a few men
who love adventures in the open all
are seriously thinking Of a Trail and
Mountain Club to reopen the aban-
doned mountain trails between Wal
| luku and Lahaina,
| A. second trail to be reopened will
be one from Waiehu along the
northern rim of the lao Gorge to the
summit, thence down the western
side, to Kanaha valley, emerging a
Mount Retreat above Lahaina. This
| is said to be the most accessible trai
and quite safe for travellers, excep
. in place where it crosses % biz
, rock, itself a continuation of the ridg
over which the trail runs. On eithe
side the ridg drops off sheer pre-
| cipice, accessible only to birds. |
is said the boulder itself will swa.
and rock under the weight of a pas
} sing traveller, and cannot be passec
, when stiff breeze is blowing, 70
!, at such times any one venturing ol
Tits smooth SURFACE will be blown OF
,iinto the valley below, which ma
bAenly q case Of Imagination run
ming riot, But the story is handle
{ fIdown that an adventurous Ne'
0 England sailor lad named Carte
yIlost his life there some two genera
q tions back, and his grave can still b
e seen in the old foreign cemetery q
n Lahaina,
h The spice Of danger will add ze'
it to the adventures of the Trail Mour
IS tain Club to be. 1t will test I'll
e mettle, the nerve, the enduran(
II and the qualities that go to II
d making Of good moral and SCUM
o physical man, and will make
3 worth while to be full fiedge
If member of the select circle Of ii
n Maui branch of the Trail and Moul
g tain Club,
h Jas. n. X. Keola, formerly OF IL
defunct Alpine Club, recently q
n active leader of the prohibition for
d es on Maui, who has just bobbed |
If from under and may have held |
IS his hand with the unspoken ejac1
Df lation Never again!" until a
or other camgaign begins, is the chi
re promoter. Very soon Mr.. Keo
a hopes to lead a few daring spirits
w adventure into the bewildering jun
~ les and the lost pathway over Il
ne ridge between Olowalu and lao, al
is thereby achieve the distinction OF 7
IN discovering the lost trail over Il
lao mountains,