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Hiking stick

Take your hiking stick(s) if you usually hike with one (or a pair). Telescoping sticks are best: You can collapse them, put them in your luggage, and check them through. Otherwise, you may not be able to get them aboard a plane. Hawaii’s terrain can be very slippery when wet, and a hiking stick can be a big help in maintaining your footing. And it can double as a spider stick (see ssss1).

Spider stick

There are a very few overgrown trails where you and some orb spiders may meet unexpectedly, head-on. You probably don’t like collecting spiders with your face, but these critters make it hard not to do so. Here’s one way to avoid them without killing them. Pick up and use a “spider stick”—a long, strong stick that you carefully wave up and down in front of you as you hike. You can feel the tug when the stick connects with a web. Detach the anchor strands that hold the web in your way, and lay them aside on the adjacent shrubbery. An orb spider normally rebuilds most or all of its web daily, so you’ve caused it only minor inconvenience. Your hiking stick can probably double as a spider stick.