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The former “Mystery Trail” now ends at a wonderful educational facility, the Discovery Center, and that’s what I’ve renamed this trip. Also, the Puu Kaohalo Trail is now signed “Berry Flat,” so I’ve renamed the trip Berry Flat.

Enjoy!

Getting Information About Kauai

The search for the perfect trail guide

I wish I could be certain this was a flawless book. However, some things limit an author’s ability to produce a perfect, error-free, always up-to-date book. Here are some of the factors, and what you can do to help yourself (and me).

Nature makes constant revisions; so do agencies

Nature constantly reshapes the landscape across which we plan to trek. That’s usually a gradual process, but once in a while she makes drastic changes overnight. A landslide can erase a trail in seconds. Erosion can undercut a cliff edge and make last year’s safe hike an extremely dangerous one, so that the local authorities close a trail you’d hoped to ramble on. And Kauai’s fragile volcanic terrain erodes quite rapidly.