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10,023Feet high!!! It was so odd looking down on the clouds far below as we hiked walked to the top of Haleakalā Volcano in Maui
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Ahhh, yes, that was a beautiful place!
I first went up on Manua Kea, but I was a stupid haole and had no idea how to do it properly. We went up with insufficient clothing, didn't wait an hour at the halfway point, and didn't make any offerings!
Oh man, what a mess. The camera popped open, we were freezing, my film was overexposed, and only one of my pictures came out.
When I went to Haleakala, I was akumai.
I asked to borrow one of the ship's Fire Fighting Ensembles, gloves and flash hood, so I was plenty warm? I just looked like a firefighter, LOL! I had FFG-57 on my back in huge, reflective letters. When I went up, I started driving at midnight, and I stopped halfway up and laid the seats back and slept for a few hours. Then when I got to the top, I slept another hour, so by then I was used to the thin air.
I caught sunrise at the observation deck, and man, it was incredible. There were a lot of people there, many of them totally unprepared. I heard one girl whine as she crossed the parking lot in slippahs and a bathing suit, "But it's Hawai'i!"
After sunrise, I went for a walk, and saw Fire Lines!
During the day, the ground warms up and cooks the moisture out of the ground, but it never really leaves. Then after nightfall, the water vapor condenses and flows downhill. But then it starts to freeze, and as it does, it forms spikes of ice. Those spikes rise up from under the lava tuff in lines that cross the landscape, and when the sun rises, the light makes it look like lines of fire!
As I was passing a shrine, I stopped to take a picture, and I dug out my light meter (Old School FTW!) and took a reading. Zoop. The needle went all the way to the left. I adjusted, made sure the diffuser window was open, and configured the settings again. Zoop. The needle went all the way to the right. I did a double-take, then looked around, like, "What the..."
That's when I realized, "Oh crap!" I pulled out my bottle of water, and made an offering to the Eight Cardinal Directions, thanking the gods, the spirits and the memory of the Ali'i.
Zoop! The needle went right where it was supposed to go, and gave me the correct reading.
"Right! Got it!" I said, and went on to take a bunch of good pictures that all came out.
I first went up on Manua Kea, but I was a stupid haole and had no idea how to do it properly. We went up with insufficient clothing, didn't wait an hour at the halfway point, and didn't make any offerings!
Oh man, what a mess. The camera popped open, we were freezing, my film was overexposed, and only one of my pictures came out.
When I went to Haleakala, I was akumai.
I asked to borrow one of the ship's Fire Fighting Ensembles, gloves and flash hood, so I was plenty warm? I just looked like a firefighter, LOL! I had FFG-57 on my back in huge, reflective letters. When I went up, I started driving at midnight, and I stopped halfway up and laid the seats back and slept for a few hours. Then when I got to the top, I slept another hour, so by then I was used to the thin air.
I caught sunrise at the observation deck, and man, it was incredible. There were a lot of people there, many of them totally unprepared. I heard one girl whine as she crossed the parking lot in slippahs and a bathing suit, "But it's Hawai'i!"
After sunrise, I went for a walk, and saw Fire Lines!
During the day, the ground warms up and cooks the moisture out of the ground, but it never really leaves. Then after nightfall, the water vapor condenses and flows downhill. But then it starts to freeze, and as it does, it forms spikes of ice. Those spikes rise up from under the lava tuff in lines that cross the landscape, and when the sun rises, the light makes it look like lines of fire!
As I was passing a shrine, I stopped to take a picture, and I dug out my light meter (Old School FTW!) and took a reading. Zoop. The needle went all the way to the left. I adjusted, made sure the diffuser window was open, and configured the settings again. Zoop. The needle went all the way to the right. I did a double-take, then looked around, like, "What the..."
That's when I realized, "Oh crap!" I pulled out my bottle of water, and made an offering to the Eight Cardinal Directions, thanking the gods, the spirits and the memory of the Ali'i.
Zoop! The needle went right where it was supposed to go, and gave me the correct reading.
"Right! Got it!" I said, and went on to take a bunch of good pictures that all came out.
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