Hey guys so Cayleigh and I just started the Kalalau trail hike along the east
coast of Kauai or I guess it's the North Shore of Kauai, but we're super stoked
because this is like one of the highlight hikes that we've been waiting
for to do on this trip in Hawaii, and it`s one of the best rated ones. It's 11 miles and
11 miles out along the Na Pali Coast which is like the most beautiful area in
all of hawaii so we're pretty pumped about it
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so just wanted to talk about the hike in the first half a little bit, it wasn't too bad it wasn't too steep it
was a lot of like up and down the whole hike like the whole 11 miles I think is
1800 metres of elevation gain which is a lot but I think like we probably did
maybe like 400 and that's like up and down it's pretty it's not an extreme I
also wanted to talk a little bit about the weather it's rainy sunny all the
time like it could be raining while it's sunny it changes so fast it's not super
hot when the Sun comes out and you go around some of the ridges and you're
exposing get kind of hot but other than that it's been like pretty like 21
degrees Celsius I think like nothing too hot nothing too cool I think at night
it's gonna dip down to maybe like 10 to 15 degrees
so this is day two on the Kalalau trail for me and Cayleigh. We spent the
night half way last night the six mile points there's two campgrounds on this
trail there's the final one on the beach and then there's one halfway we were
pretty unprepared for how low the temperature was gonna do that nights we
were really cold last night we didn't sleep great so we're gonna link a
packing list below this video um it'll be in a blog post so that you don't have
to come unprepared for that. so we're just about to do crawlers Ledge this is mile seven along
the hike it's pretty famous for being the most dangerous part of the hike
you're basically scaling along a cliff just above the ocean... we`ll touch base after!
Alright so we just finished crawlers ledge, it was definitely a bit nerve racking, but not as bad as we thought. As long as you just go slow, make sure you're intentionally taking
your steps and putting your poles in places you know are secure, you`ll be totally fine. Don't do it in the rain yeah yeah if its slippery
yeah that would be scary and it's probably only about 50 feel of cliff in total
yeah yeah like it's not bad it's over in like a couple minutes. We didn't know
how long it was gonna be so we're like it's this it is this the worse that it's
gonna get. But it wasn`t as bad as we were expecting.
the air traffic along this trail is insane because of the Napali coast all
the tours the helicopter tours that actually me and Cayleigh are doing later
there's constantly helicopters and small bush planes flying by two just passed
actually in the background one but it's just like constant helicopter after helicopter
after helicopter so just so you know
alright guys so me Cayleigh just made it to Kalalau Beach and it's stunning the
weathers perfect, it`s so nice here, there`s hardly anyone here, too! This is it.
so we're sitting at Kalalau beach enjoying the afternoon for these sweet few hours
yeah soaking up the sun! and it is beautiful really happy to be here but we just wanted to talk a little
bit about safety on the trail. Yeah theres a couple main things to keep in mind, the stream crossings are one of them. So this area is really know for flash flooding. Actually when we got here there
was some road closed in Kauai and the trail was closed because of flash
flooding so just be careful the streams can get really high and really
dangerous like within a matter of like an hour or two yeah so if it looks like
it's rose a lot and it's unmanageable I'll just wait it out don't try and cross
there's two places that you have to actually take your boots off and cross
the streams and this is depending how high the streams are of course but we had
to take our boots off twice and cross the stream so you want to do it quickly as
you can just to get out of the way, and cautiously! So another thing we want to talk about too
is the heli pads on this trail. There's been people who have had to get
airlifted out whether that's due to injuries or getting stranded, if a stream floods or something like that. There has been a lot of rescues and there have unfortunately been people who have passed away on this trail as well. If something did
happen there is probably like five or six helipad like along the entire trail
that helicopters could rescue there's no service though so you'd either have to
carry a GPS phone or you'd have to flag probably one of the tour helicopter
down by smoker or a mirror or some other method, or send someone back, i guess.It's really important to
just be careful while you're while you're on the trail we think like gear
is a big part of that like don't attempt to do this hike like in sneakers I would
say bring like proper hiking shoes and good poles with you, a good rain jacket. also like weather
dependent like don't push yourself to keep climbing up you know muddy
slopes that are steep on both sides it's been raining and it's awful yeah don't
push yourself past the dark either like hiking in the dark would be super unsafe
in this trail. yeah crossing streams and
crawlers ledge in the dark would be
terrifying yeah, very unsafe. The last thing we wanted to talk to you about is there are a few
beaches along this trail like the one that we're sitting on right now but the
surf and the riptides are questionable so there's signs up everywhere I saying
like people being rescued or swept out to sea, so if it doesn't look safe don't go
in the water. I don't know - we didn't grow up around the ocean so it`s kind
of hard for us to tell, I would say whats safe and whats not safe so we just
haven't really been going in past like our knees just because the rip tides
are really strong here yeah this this time of the year has really high surf
too in Hawaii so it's probably the worst time of the year possibly but yeah Thank
You general yeah you don't know just stay out of the water that the best thing to do.
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