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On a few trips, the trail is faint to nonexistent, and the agency in charge has attempted to mark the route by tying tags of colored plastic ribbon to plants along the route. On Oahu, you may also find metal tags with arrows painted on them or bright paint “tags” splashed on boulders. You navigate by moving from tag to tag. Don’t count on tags to get you in and out of an area. Always keep track of where you’ve been by map and compass, by GPS, or by landmarks, as the tags may just peter out. There’s a lot of deadfall in a rainforest, for example, and the tags are lost when the plants they’re tied to fall.

Supplemental information

At the end of most of the trips there’s some extra information about the historical significance of places you’ll see along the route. Or maybe there’s a story—a myth, for example—related to the trip that I hope will add to your enjoyment of the trip. Perhaps there’ll be a bit more information about the plants in or the geology of the area. I put most of the supplemental information at the end so that it doesn’t interfere too much with the description of the trip itself. I think safety dictates that you give your attention first to the trip and only secondarily to the supplemental information. That is not a problem with easy and very easy hikes, so in those hikes, the supplemental information is often part of the main description.