Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-29
trail And MOUNTAIN MEMBERS in
DIFFICULT Climb TO SCHOFIELD

their vacation. Verify, the Trail and
Mountain club can greatly assist In
making Oahu interesting to the en-.
listed man. for / noticed that most OF
them preferred the rest houses to the
tents; and how happy Capt. Hller.
brock was to be back on the coffee
plantation that u years ago he had
managed. The alligator pear trees
nificent forest trees now. bearing an
abundant crop Of delicious salad fruit.
The lemon groves. although uncared
for. also yielded their fruit.
We selected our rest house and.
after hearty meal. slept till morning.
and were up with the first OF the troop
ers who were OF on the hills to get
the young kids that supplied the meat
for the camp.
Again we passed up through the old
coffee plantation. which Is now .
thicket Up and IN we assembled, but
still coffee. hut Captain Ellerbroek
promised us an acre of black raspbeF
ries that he had planted years before
We struck the patch. but they wernf
black raspberries" they
bore the largest and most delicious
blackberries that any of us had ever
tasted. and the acre" had become
more than mile OF blackberry briaf
as high as your head. through which
we had to cut our way. There Is "a
alleged wagon road up to this patch
end there is good money for someone
who will undertake to gather and mat
ket its now ripening fruit In Honolulu
After we left the blackberry patch
the real steep ascent began. but soon
we were on the ridge between Waia-
nae and Makaha and trudging along
on the hog-baek. There Is really moth
ing difficult on this trail. save that
for distance Of perhaps half mile.
here and there. you meet rocks yard
or two wide that stand alone. seem
ingly balanced on the hog-back. and
you have to look fer roots or ANYTHING
else to which to clasp and hold your.
self ND by. II the roots gave way and
YOU happened to slim and fall thefe
is dron of few hundred feet u
Is net ladies' trail, but for any nah
with clear head. 1t Is an almost safe
trail; but. oh, the steeDness OF that
last reach. VI reminded one OF Peli-
kuna On the island Of ATolokai. where
you climbed hand over hand holding
On to trees that grew at right angles
from the preeipice that Is almost Z
mile high.
At last we reached the top. and
then we turned and told Capt. Eller.
brock what good man he was. He
said that was all right. but that every.
enc else who had tried to cross from
where we stood to the Iseilehua side
had given ii uD to come hack and de.
clare II was impossible. although part.
les had Travelled from Lellehua to Mo-
kuliea However, 1t was hut $3.50 and
we had made the ascent in about 3 ~
hours. and Captain Sherer stated that
we had about eight hours OF daylight
and that We would make Il: so get
ting out his compass. we started. II Is
needless to say that fog had settled
down. 1t always does on Kaala. and
there was no locking for landmarks'
We Just let our two troopers. Sergeants
Yates and Serstead go ahead with
their bolos and We followed. some.
times walking on the tops Of trees.
sometimes wading In scggy moss and
mud up to our knees. and sometimes
on all-fours. but we kept due east
we kept due east for several hours
then we held a council of war, for IN
the fcg. which now and then raised
we knew we were lost. BY vote we
turned to the right and did some fool
ish things. We went over one gulley
and. then started to go down oven
series of waterfalls to-Ee knowgnot
where; but we came to our senses in
time and clambered back to the sum
NIT for there. far CT IN the distance.
was the great long ridge that we be
lieved led down to Leilehua, and sud
denly the fog raised. and there at our
feet lay Schofeld Barracks The six
of us gave shout, and then we had
CONTINUED on mage twenty aess