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shorter excursions to which the busy office worker is confined 

 for lack of sufficient time while, for the all-day tramp, a score 

 of magnificent trips are available in regioi^s where there is no 

 danger of doing unwitting damage to the forest. 



Who has not climbed the escarpment back of Mokuleia and 

 Kawaihapai toward the west end of the island and not felt 

 rewarded when he gained the top and then strolled more leisurely 

 toward the summit of the range in the grateful shade of the 

 kukuis which fill the gentle sloping gulches like cathedral arches, 

 or been thrilled when he came suddenly upon a boulder-strewn 

 knoll covered with an open grove of yellow ohia lehua in full 

 blossom, ior felt inspired by the grandeur of the birds-eye view, 

 from the main ridge, of Makua and Kahanahaiki Valleys spread- 

 ing out at your feet an expanse of cliffs, slopes, cultivated patches, 

 the dazzling brightness of the coral beach, and the blue of ocean 

 depths reaching far out to the horizon? 



Who has not gone into this same plateau region a second 

 time during the naulu season and been enveloped in the dense 

 fog and not felt the thrill of adventure while seeking for one 

 of the few trails down the cliffs to the Kaena lowlands, with 

 the obscured surf below booming in his ears? 



Who has not labored up the craggy ridge in Halona almost to 

 the top of Puu Kaua and not felt amply rewarded by the sudden 

 glimpse through Pohakea Pass in the Waianaes of Diamond 

 Head with the placid waters of Pearl Harbor winding like a 

 broad river through the kiawe forest to the sea? Or who has 

 not rambled up the rocky ridges mauka of Koko Head and 

 enjoyed the expansive view of barren ridge after ridge stretched 

 before him toward the desert end of the island, to be cooled at 

 last in the strong trade wind blowing over the crest of Wainia- 

 nalo Pali and felt amply rewarded wath the view to windward 

 of the unsurpassed beach, the coral patches showing through 

 the crystal clear waters, the fringe of dazzling surf surrounding 

 Rabbit Island, Makapuu Point boldly facing the broad swells 

 of the open Pacific, with the white beach of west Molokai and 

 the jutting headlands back of Kalaupapa framing the picture 

 on the right? 



These are only a few of the many fascinating and alluring 

 tramps in the open country on the island of Oahu which one 

 may take with the absolute assurance that he is interfering with 

 no scheme of forest protection or endangering the continuity of 

 the valued water supply. 



Note: The foregoing paper was delivered at a regularly 

 assembled luncheon meeting of the Hawaiian Trail and 

 Mountain Club on April 28, 1921, at which time the Club 

 unanimously voted to plan its excursions so as to interfere 

 as little as possible with forest protection. — Ed. 



