Adventure Travel


The Most Exclusive Day Hike in the World

September 1st, 2009 by Jeff Wallach
Pu'uKukui/West Maui Matershed

As a laughably strong wind blew me off the narrow boardwalk above First Bog in Pu’u Kukui Preserve I sank calf deep into black mud.  Some experts estimate that each foot of bog here represents about 10,000 years of vegetative growth, so I had just stepped back—literally— into prehistory.  Which seemed appropriate in this eerie landscape reminiscent of something out of Jurassic Park.  And given that barely any...

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