A trip to the summit of Mauna Kea

Author:

Baldwin, E. D.

Title:

A trip to the summit of Mauna Kea

Periodical:

Hawaiian almanac and annual for 1890

Year:

1890

Pages:

p.54-58

Subject:

Mauna Kea history Mauna Kea description and travel Lake Waiau

Summary:

A description of the upper slopes of Mauna Kea ("White Mountain") by a surveying party that traveled to the summit in August, 1889 for the purpose of making a topographical survey of the summit plateau with the stadia. Their journey took them where trails entered the woods that were filled with oi bushes and ferns, to an area where ieie and iiwi wreathed the trees, that led to the 1855 lava flow, (that overlapped with the flow of 1881), and onto an area that was thinly covered with stunted ohia ferns and numerous ohelo bushes. The trail also led the surveyors to Halealoha, and on to Hitchcock's camp, Kipukahina. Off a sheep trail was Puu Oo, where a trail led the team around the mountain and towards Waimea, reaching Puakala -- Hitchcock's mountain house. Their travels then led them to two sand cones called Kaupaloihale, through a scattering grove of mamane, scarce vegetation, and the tree limit ending at the foot of Kaupaloihale, on to Lake Waiau and to the summit of Mauna Kea, that was very aged, with no signs of any late volcanic action.

URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10524/31851

Collection:

Monographs