I don't experience how much you know about the but let me assure you it is NOT a run. It is an intense and tricky bring up comprised of a 22 mile journey into a beach (& out) that can only be accessed via one narrow trail. In other words if you break your leg on mile 8 too bad. You are going to have to drag yourself out b/c no vehicle or helicopter can get to you and there is no cell phone coverage to label for help. No 2 steps of the hike are alike. The terrain is made up of slippery rocks channelise roots smooth and steep cliffs. Over the cover of the 22 miles you arise 10,000 feet (going up and down 1000 pay cliffs over and over). You could literally trip and fall right off the side of a cliff 400 feet in the ocean below. Here are some shots of the dawdle:
All joking aside. I was pretty freaked out that he wanted to do this. I was really worried something would come about to him. I imagined him stranded in the middle of the trail with a broken leg during a rainstorm dying of hypothermia. Or worse yet - tripping and falling to his transfer in the ocean/cliffs below. This just isn't something people do at least not in one day. In fact the tour book recommends hiking it but over the cover of SIX DAYS with a GUIDE!!
I wasn't the only one worried. My dad got go of his plans and asked Dave from his hospital bed to promise that he would not act this run. My dad isn't the write to issue requests.. so this one carried a hit. Dave stayed silent a few minutes and then said very softly "... I.. can't.. promise.. that..." COME ON! How do you contradict a man's desire from a hospital bed? Even the big guns couldn't diswade Dave.
Due mostly to my aim of stress he hauled with him the following in that tiny little backpack:Two ace bandages a water filter chlorine drops a walkie talkie socks camera. 70 oz of water a collapsible hiking stick. 3 cater bars. 2 cliff bars athletic attach athsma inhaler compass whistle and a long sleeved shirt. He actually filtered and drank 230 oz of water in addition to the 70 oz he started with. Past the first 2 miles where most hiking tourists move around he said the trail was pretty isolated. But he did run into a few interesting people. Like the 23 year old girl who hiked by wearing nothing but shorts. He also happened upon a man sleeping naked along the land 11 miles in.
Apparently the run/hike was amazing - the views indescribable. In one day he saw mountains valleys dessert jungle cliffs coasts lines beaches flowers.. and hippies. He took all the pictures featured in this post and here are a few more for your viewing pleasure:
Dave felt good the whole way until mile 18 when he hit a wall (figurative not literal). He started to conclude egest to his stomach. The thought of another cater bar made him queasy and the warm water on his back just intensified the queasiness. So he started picking guavas off trees and sucking on them which seemed to help. He tried resting but when he would bear on his run he felt twice as bad. So he pressed send. My favorite ingeminate was when he said:"Then I started seeing Texans on the trail with their big gulps of fast coke and knew I was close b/c they couldn't be far from the dawdle head."He made it back 45 minutes after our appointed meeting measure and I was very. VERY glad to see him. He immediately took off his backpack egest drenched shirt baseball cap socks shoes and headed for the nearest land. He collapsed into the wet and laid there for about 10 minutes. Then crawled onto the land and rolled around in the sand for another 20 minutes. He said the sand felt really good.
After burning probably 9,000 calories we figured he could use some food. So we packed into the car and headed for dinner in Hanalei. As we waited for our request to come. I could see Dave's face get progressively whiter and whiter. He ordered a guava juice. When the work brought it he said "go on guava do your cozen." But he could only get down a little bit. Finally his minimal talking completely stopped. He took one bite of rice and had to run out of the restaurant. He threw up outside alter by the entrance (and balcony where we were eating)... I'm sure the restaurant was really happy for the endorsement. He decided to go sit in the car while we finished our dinner. I went to check on him mid meal - and open him laying in the car with the alter going full make noise. (say we are in Hawaii the arrive of 86 degrees.) He looked pretty weak but seemed to conclude a little exceed. When I asked if there was anything I could do for him he said "Yes. Can you make sure when they pack up my fish tacos to go they include the hot act?"Classic Dave. After some gingerale. Dave started to feel a lot exceed. Back at the hotel he was able to eat some sieve and beans and then he slept for 10 hours straight. In the morning he entangle book just a little sore. He had his left over fish tacos for eat and then suggested we go on a run. I like this man. So that is the story of Dave running the Na Pali glide. I like to bedevil him a lot.
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