Kuliouou (pronounced Coolee oh oh) ridge hike starts on the Honolulu side of the island toward diamondhead and hikes 1600ft up a ridge. It’s definitely an intense hike and as usual I was a bit nervous about it. All in all, taking my time I did great. The way up starts with switch backs so that helps. There weren’t any technical spots really. We started at 7am and parked in the neighborhood, that turned out fine.

You can see Diamondhead poking out behind me on my way up.

There are a lot more stairs than I expected- still no where near as bad as Hawaii Loa.

Thankfully the conditions were dry. Although, I did have the thought of forest fires in the back of my head (Hawaii can never really win… either its wet and wicked slippery but there’s waterfalls and no fire threat, or it’s dry and hot and you are worried there might be a fire).