The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1911-07-21


secretary Of the Trail and Mountain
club of work accomplished:
70 the President and Officers, Trail
and Mountain Club, Honolulu, T. H.:
conference.-the Trail and Mountain
Club, since its inception a year and
half ago, has suffered considerably
from the lack Of any permanent home
and headquarters This has been
romedied by securing with the Civic
| Federation and others a downtown
headquarters for the Trail and Noun
tain Club, where its clerical work is
| placed in the hands of corps of
workers and rooms maintained for
meetings and as a general meeting
place of members.
At a meeting of the several public
| service bodies organizing the Public
Service Association, Mr.. Castle, as
president of the Trail and Mountain
Club, stated that he would guarantee
| that that body would appropriate $500
for the coming year to start the new
headquarters and to help keep it alive
for that length of time.
Through the kindness of Mr.. Castle
a trail has been built from back of
Punchbowl Hill a number of miles
around the mountains, ascending
| Olympus and descending to Manoa
Valley This trail is placed under the
charge Of the Trail and Mountain
| Club. Mr. Castle also intends to build
one rest house Of simple construction
on Pauoa Flats, overlooking both Nuu-
anu and Manoa Valleys. This will
come under the control of the Trail
and Mountain Club. Mrs. Cooke has
cut a trail for the club from the site
of the proposed rest house to the dam
in Nuuanu Valley; from there there is
path to the Pail road.
Mr.. Lowrey is building trail from
the Pail road to the summit of LAM
hull. To connect the trail Mr. Castle
has built with the Manoa road, Judge
Cooper is building a trail to the sum-
nit of the ridge between Manoa and
Palolo Valleys. The Kaimuki Land
Company has built an excellent trail
from the Palolo road to Palolo crater.
From here on there is good trail to
the Castle trail to Olympus.
The members of the Trail and Noun
tain Club have made a passable trail
from Palolo crater over the seven
falls, the main road, in Palolo Valley.
The Kaimuki Land Company will build
rest house on the edge of Palolo
| crater for the Trail and Mountain
Club Mr.. Stanton of the 100000 Club
and the Kaimuki Land Company states
that a trail will be built from Wilhel-
nina Rise to its summit, where a rest
house will be built and decided over to
the Trail and Mountain Club. From
this rest house he intends building a
trail along that ridge to Palolo crater
and around the crater. 1t is possible
that the crater, when it becomes a
public reservoir, will be turned into a
lake and the surrounding hillsides
parked.
From Diamond Head to Palolo era
ter the valleys belong to Mr.. Paul
Isenberg and Judge Perry. There is
no doubt that they will gladly con-
tinue the trail along the ridge and
down into the adjoining valleys
Already the Trail and Mountain
Club members have discovered and
used the old trails going down from
the rige behind Palolo crater into Kill
ula and Waimanalo.
Sometimes as many as ffty-three
| trampers have gone on trail and noun
tain hikes in one group. AS a rule,
the tramping parties are made up OF
small groups. Sometimes on Satur-
day or a Sunday there are as many as
zoo people out over the trails taken in
hand by the Trail and Mountain Club
for improvements. Many private par
ties are now being negotiated with to
build trails for the Trail and Noun
tain Club at their own expense, and
several promises have been made,
A trail is needed for about four
fifths Of mile from Tantalus Heights
along the cliffs above Manoa Valley
and Pauoa Flats to connect with the
Castle trail. The cost Of this would
be about $500.
The Civic Federation parks commit
tee and Mr.. Angus have taken up with
the Trail and Mountain Club the mat
ter of putting in good condition the
trail up the face of Punchbowl crater.
This should be done, as clear con-
nection would then be made with the