Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1912-07-03

IL was early Saturday morning when
we left The res idence OF Mr. Cooke to
walk up Punaluu ridge. We started at
seven o'clock: Mr.. Rowland Cross,
Miss Lara bee, Miss Mary Stambaugh,
Mr., John F. Nelson, Miss Ruth Henry,
Mr.. Harold Robinson and myself
After We ate our lunch on the ridge.
] started 10 climb for the highest peak
of the front range of the riGge but the
others declared they has had enough
of climbing and weer going to walk
around. After stopping at the Castle
Rest House, / walked down into the
bed of the valley and along to the Ka-
liuwaa Falls where ! rejoined the
party.
1t was nearly $3.50 then Mr.. Cross
and Miss Larrabee declared their In
tention to return home We. all start
ed back along the main trail and Mr..
Cross and Miss Larrabee went back
past the rest house. That was the last
we sew of them. They disappeared
over the trail in the direction OF Puma
luu.
We made Miss Henry as comfortable
as possible and in the early morning
moved here to a safer place,
Sunday-when. we called for the 9TH
ers to come down. they replied that
they could not make the descent, so
we told them to climb back onto the
ridge and try to get back to the sea.
Miss Henry had three bad scalp
wounds and suffered from bruises,
shock and loss of blood. so after hold
ing a conference, it was decided to
leave Robinson with her and to go
down stream and try to find way
out
One hundred yards below we came
to another high waterfall that was
impossible to get around. SO we started
back and tried to climb out of the
canon After hard climb, we got to
the top of the ridge and started up
this end in order to make our way to
the upper ridge and back to the old
Punaluu trail.
Finally Get Bearings.
We soon met Nelson and Miss Stam-
baugh, who had succeeded in climbing
out of the valley onto the ridge, and
together we climbed all afternoon and
finally reached ehigh point on the
pain ridge al. thes Koolan mountains
From here we acould see the shore
line of Oahu, Pearl Harbor, BARRIERS
Point and Kahuku.s and found that We
were completely turned around and had
been going IN the wrong direction all
afternoon.
we started to work back along the
ridge until darkness fell. We then
found q place. of Vantage and built a
littlez shelter of branches and fern
leaves and spent the night there.
MONDAY-After cold, wet night.
during which we suffered intensely on
account of the dampness and sogginess
of the ground, we started back to the
main ridge about o'clock. Our idea
was to work towards the Punaluu trail.
but it was so misty and rainy that we
could see little ahead, and so we went
back to the shelter. On arrival, we
proceeded to make the shelter as
storm proof as possible; We had drink
ing water and knew about where we
We're and spent the rest of the day in
eating what fern roots and berries We
could find 1t was nearly as cold Mon
day night as Tuesday night, and we
had little rest
TUESDAY-When the clouds and
mist had driven away sufficiently for
us to see ahead of US, we started for
the trail again. BY following a sue
cession of winding ridges, we judged
that we would reach the trail in a few
hours 1t was IL O'Clock when we
started. We felt no danger for our
selves, but were anxious for Miss
Henryq, whom we, had left lying help
less at the foot of the second water
fall back in the valley.
Meet Rescuers.
AT 2 O'Clock in the afternoon we met
Mr.. Blaeow, John Waterhouse and DR..
Scudder. We were delighted to meet
them. They gave us food and relieved
our fears for Miss Henry somewhat