The Maui news. [volume] (Wailuku, Maui, H.I.) 1900-current, 1921-11-18
Tourist Bureau Gives
Haleakala Publicity
OF Valuable Type

Those who inquire what the IIaNa ali
tourist Bureau does for Maui are re-
ferred to the September-O October num-
Der OF See America First" for an
answer in part to their query. A copy
OF the magazine came to hand Satur-
day and in it Maui's great extinct
volcano is beautifully featured in an
article written by Harold II. Yost of
the bureau, entitled Hawaii National
Park"
Yosts articles is the leading one
oil the issue and occupy the first pages
OF reading matter in the issue. II is
faced by a 6 by 8 photo engraving of
the crater of Haleakala. a beautiful.
clear cut picture, and dealing with
the Maui section of the park he says:
Leaving Honolulu, a steamer Jour
ney of six hours takes one to Lahaipa.
a dreamy little seaport on the Island
of Maui, once the seat of kings in the
brave old days of the monarchy, from
where a wonderful automobile road
clinging to the cliffs high above the
ocean leads around to the town of
Waikiki, the gateway of Haleakala.
Easy of Access
1.-THE H%aleakala section of Hawaii
National Park takes in the great ex-
tinct crater at the summit of the
mountain and has all told an area of
2l,l5O acres. 1t is reached from the
town of Waikiki by automobile and
horse, 1t being possible to make the
entire journey in about five hours.
For the more energetic, however, a
splendid trip is to go by motor as far
DC nlindn Of m AIa,rats~, - 4nnn -.
on the western slope of the mountain.
then tramp to the summit, a distance
of eight miles and an ascent of nearly
5000 feet, all of which may easily be
accomplished in a day.
The crater of Haleakala, which in
volcanic parlance is really a caldera.
is a tremendous and magnificent spec
tacle. It's rim, the highest point of
which is 10,036 feet above the blue
watt rs of the Pacific, is roughly TWEEN.
ty miles in circumference, with an eX
IRENE diameter of 7.4S miles and is
over 1000 feet above the main floor
of the crater. A storm proof concrete
rest house with hunks for the accom-
mediation of about twenty-five persons
is located at a point on the western
rim of the crater from which a mar
velous view may be had of the i'm
mense caldera, OF the floor of which
are a number of volcanic cones sew
eral hundred feet in height but which
from the rim appear as mere ant hills.
One of the greatest spectacles to be
seen from Haleakala is the sunrise, a
thing of such marvellous beauty of
light and shadow and soft coloring
that no language can adequately des-
cribe it.
Descent Into Crater
THE majority of visitors to Halea-
leala content themselves with the trip
o the rest house, returning in the
morning after viewing the sunrise. A
descent into the crater is quite easily
made at one point however, and well
repays those who make it. Once on
the crater floor, a place of ancient
lava streams and cinder cones which
from that viewpoint assume their true
proportions as young mountains, the
immensely and the awful grandeur of
the place strikes one with overwhelm-
ing force. 1t is a great desert of lava
and cinders, a place of magnificent
solitude, a burned out world. 1t is full
of interesting places which may be
explored-under proper guidance al
ways, for to lose ones way might
prove fatal, and the coloring of the
crater walls above, the brilliance of
the stars at night, cause poets and
artists to rave impotently. There too,
is found the beautiful silver-sword
plant which at certain seasons sends
up a Towering stalk of two or three
feet in height, on which are borne
blossoms of a vivid red, a lovely
sight, yet well nigh supernatural in
that vast soilless desert"