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Using This Book

How This Book Organizes the Trips

Imagine the hour hand of a clock pinned to a point near the center of a rounded island. Think of it sweeping around clockwise from a twelve o’clock position that’s due north. It’s easy to envision the hour hand pointing to three o’clock (due east), six o’clock (due south), and nine o’clock (due west) as it moves around.

You can think of Hawaii as a clock with its hour hand pinned to its middle, about halfway up the slope of Mauna Loa from the Saddle Road. A little before the twelve o’clock, the imaginary hour hand points at Waipio Valley. Near three o’clock, it points to Lava Tree State Monument, and at nine o’clock it points to Captain Cook’s Monument. On the right is the Hawaii clock pointing to Waipio Valley.

The trips start near twelve o’clock at Waipio Valley (ssss1) and move clockwise around the island, ending near eleven o’clock at Pololu Valley (ssss1). There are two big sets of exceptions to this order; I’ve described them below.