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Equipment Suggestions and Miscellaneous Hints

This book isn’t intended to teach you how to hike. If you can walk, you can hike, especially the “very easy” hikes. Don’t forget that you can cut almost any hike down to your ability by walking only part of it. Just be sure the trips you pick are within your hiking limits.

This book is intended specifically to let you know where you can hike on Oahu, what to expect when you hike there, and how to get to the trailhead for each hike. And that, I hope, will help you decide which hikes to take.

This section contains suggestions that I hope will make your hikes even more pleasant, and perhaps better protect you and the environment. Of course, you’re the only person who lives in your body, so you’ll have to judge what’s really appropriate for you. But there are a few things you might want to know before you go—things that may be very different from the hiking you’ve done at home on the mainland. (Maybe you already know them, but it’s hard to shut me up when I think I have some good advice.)