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Permit required: A few trips require you to have someone’s permission to camp. This section will tell you what you need permission for, if anything, and whom to apply to. See “ssss1” for addresses.

Description: This is the detailed description of the trip as I perceived it. I’ve tried to give you an idea of the more obvious plants and other features you’ll find, where the rough spots are, when you’ll be ascending or descending, where viewpoints are, and what you’ll see from those viewpoints. On some trips, the trail is faint to nonexistent, and the agency in charge has marked the route by tying tags of colored plastic ribbon to the plants along the route. You navigate by moving from tag to tag.

Supplemental information

At the bottom 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 Kauai myth, for example—related to the trip which I hope will add to your enjoyment of the trip. Perhaps there’ll be a bit more information about the plants or the geology in the area. I put most of the supplemental information at the end so that it wouldn’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 very easy hikes, so the supplemental information is often part of the main description in those hikes.)