Hiking in Hawaii

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OwnerMatthew Gilbertson
Creation Date2011-09-18 22:23:17 UTC-0400
DescriptionEric Gilbertson, Matthew Gilbertson, Jake Osterberg
Sept 0-5, 2011

Link: Our quest for the state high points

Excerpt from Mauna Kea report:

“This guy has to pick us up,” Matthew yelled, sticking out his thumb as a silver jeep approached. We were 12,000ft up on Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in Hawaii, and Jake was getting hammered by altitude sickness. We had hiked to within 700 vertical feet of the summit, but had to turn around and get down ASAP before Jake got worse. It would take hours to hike back to our car at the 9,000ft trailhead, so we were walking down the summit road hoping someone might pick us up. It was slim pickings for cars driving by on that Thursday morning, and the only other car we’d seen had passed us by, but we were feeling good about this jeep.
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Click the Mauna Kea album to read the rest of our report.

Photos by Jake Osterberg, Matthew and Eric Gilbertson