We got home from The Big Island last week after a 10 day stay. We were
BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote or quoted:
We got home from The Big Island last week after a 10 day stay. We were
Speaking of Hawaii, today (2025-04-10), it's 200 years ago that the
first hotel opened in Hawaii (1825-04-10) (Major Warren's Hotel).
On 9 Apr 2025 18:33:45 GMT, Stefan Ram wrote:
BCFD 36 <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote or quoted:
We got home from The Big Island last week after a 10 day stay. We were
Speaking of Hawaii, today (2025-04-10), it's 200 years ago that the
first hotel opened in Hawaii (1825-04-10) (Major Warren's Hotel).
I'm going to Honolulu next month for my mother's 104th birthday.
So I hope Pele will bless me with an eruption like that while I'm
there and I'll hop a flight to the Big Island in a heartbeat.
I'm going to Honolulu next month for my mother's 104th birthday.
So I hope Pele will bless me with an eruption like that while I'm
there and I'll hop a flight to the Big Island in a heartbeat.
It is very "hit or miss". Just because it is erupting today, doesn't
mean that it will be erupting tomorrow, or even in two hours. Good luck.
On 4/10/2025 2:48 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article <vt91nn$3h2kb$2@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36<bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
On 4/10/25 00:54, Charles Packer wrote:
I'm going to Honolulu next month for my mother's 104th birthday.
So I hope Pele will bless me with an eruption like that while I'm
there and I'll hop a flight to the Big Island in a heartbeat.
It is very "hit or miss". Just because it is erupting today, doesn't
mean that it will be erupting tomorrow, or even in two hours. Good luck.
But, even if it's not erupting, Kilauea is beautiful and worth the visit.
It's dry right now so you won't see the sort of orchids you'd see later in >> the year but it's still magnificent.
--scott
If you have time, and can manage the altitude, visit the Mauna Loa >Observatory. You need to go on one of the jitney tours (no car rentals).
You won't be able to enter the telescope domes, but the view is other >worldly.
It's at nearly 14,000 feet, and we stopped for a while at 9000 (where
the base station is) to acclimate.
Our tour was timed to start descending just after sunset, and the driver >stopped partway down to give us a sky tour, using a powerful handheld
laser as a pointer, in the darkest sky you'll probably ever experience.
James Nicoll wrote:
Cryptoengineer wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
BCFD 36:
Charles Packer wrote:But, even if it's not erupting, Kilauea is beautiful and worth the visit. >>>> It's dry right now so you won't see the sort of orchids you'd see later in >>>> the year but it's still magnificent.
I'm going to Honolulu next month for my mother's 104th birthday.
So I hope Pele will bless me with an eruption like that while I'm
there and I'll hop a flight to the Big Island in a heartbeat.
It is very "hit or miss". Just because it is erupting today, doesn't >>>>> mean that it will be erupting tomorrow, or even in two hours. Good luck. >>>>
--scott
If you have time, and can manage the altitude, visit the Mauna Loa >>>Observatory. You need to go on one of the jitney tours (no car rentals). >>>You won't be able to enter the telescope domes, but the view is other >>>worldly.
It's at nearly 14,000 feet, and we stopped for a while at 9000 (where
the base station is) to acclimate.
Our tour was timed to start descending just after sunset, and the driver >>>stopped partway down to give us a sky tour, using a powerful handheld >>>laser as a pointer, in the darkest sky you'll probably ever experience.
We were allowed to drive up to an observation point on Mauna Kea
in 2011. What we discovered is that not every car is able to do
that. On the first attempt, the car reached marker five and it just
would not continue up.
Once we were up there, I was able to determine the anoxia slowed
my reading speed by about one third, and running around was just
not in the cards...
One day, my bicycling buddy's brother, who lives in the Los Angeles
metro area, had the bright idea for all of us to spin to the top of
Mauna Kea on bicycles. Kea tops out at about 14,000 feet. How hard
can it be?
It seemed best to train for this tentative trip (it never
happened) on my local mountain. [1] You can click on the link to look
at the winding road up "my" mountain in the topmost picture. The highway >commences on the right side of the image and also winds up on the right
side. All-in-all, an approximate 1,000 foot gain in elevation is
achieved.
If you do the math, repeating the loop fourteen times is equivalent
to one spin up Mauna Kea. My training topped out at a triplet, three
times around the loop, or a shade shy of a quarter of the way up Kea.
In a word, it's torturous to spin up Kea.
Cryptoengineer wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:
BCFD 36:
Charles Packer wrote:But, even if it's not erupting, Kilauea is beautiful and worth the visit. >>> It's dry right now so you won't see the sort of orchids you'd see later in >>> the year but it's still magnificent.
I'm going to Honolulu next month for my mother's 104th birthday.
So I hope Pele will bless me with an eruption like that while I'm
there and I'll hop a flight to the Big Island in a heartbeat.
It is very "hit or miss". Just because it is erupting today, doesn't
mean that it will be erupting tomorrow, or even in two hours. Good luck. >>>
--scott
If you have time, and can manage the altitude, visit the Mauna Loa >>Observatory. You need to go on one of the jitney tours (no car rentals). >>You won't be able to enter the telescope domes, but the view is other >>worldly.
It's at nearly 14,000 feet, and we stopped for a while at 9000 (where
the base station is) to acclimate.
Our tour was timed to start descending just after sunset, and the driver >>stopped partway down to give us a sky tour, using a powerful handheld
laser as a pointer, in the darkest sky you'll probably ever experience.
We were allowed to drive up to an observation point on Mauna Kea
in 2011. What we discovered is that not every car is able to do
that. On the first attempt, the car reached marker five and it just
would not continue up.
Once we were up there, I was able to determine the anoxia slowed
my reading speed by about one third, and running around was just
not in the cards...
Sounds tiring, but can your spin system make you do it with a
40% oxygen deficiency?
To add to my story: On the way up, we passed a cyclist, going up.
He arrived at the top of the road about 45 minutes behind us.
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds tiring, but can your spin system make you do it with a
40% oxygen deficiency?
To add to my story: On the way up, we passed a cyclist, going up.
He arrived at the top of the road about 45 minutes behind us.
Going up mountains like this is much too dangerous. You could slip and
fall. You could get a hangnail. You could get to the top just to find
the Bordeaux is corked. A friend of mine in high school went to the
top of Tantalus in her boyfriend's car and wound up pregnant. It's just
not worth the risk.
No, it's much safer to go mountain climbing on Wake Island. There's no
need to use the lower gears on the bicycle and if something goes wrong,
the officer's club is able to deliver a martini anywhere when it is needed.
Plus when you get back to Honolulu you'll be able to tell all the young
girls elaborate stories of how you climbed to the highest peak on the
island there.
--scott
On 12/04/25 09:53, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds tiring, but can your spin system make you do it with a
40% oxygen deficiency?
To add to my story: On the way up, we passed a cyclist, going up.
He arrived at the top of the road about 45 minutes behind us.
Going up mountains like this is much too dangerous. You could slip and
fall. You could get a hangnail. You could get to the top just to find
the Bordeaux is corked. A friend of mine in high school went to the
top of Tantalus in her boyfriend's car and wound up pregnant. It's just
not worth the risk.
No, it's much safer to go mountain climbing on Wake Island. There's no
need to use the lower gears on the bicycle and if something goes wrong,
the officer's club is able to deliver a martini anywhere when it is needed. >>
Plus when you get back to Honolulu you'll be able to tell all the young
girls elaborate stories of how you climbed to the highest peak on the
island there.
--scott
Thank you. Whilst I was interested in the experiences of previous contributors to this thread, thank you for your humour, a feature seldom
now seen here except for Dimensional Traveller's comments.
On 4/11/2025 7:10 PM, Titus G wrote:
On 12/04/25 09:53, Scott Dorsey wrote:
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds tiring, but can your spin system make you do it with a
40% oxygen deficiency?
To add to my story: On the way up, we passed a cyclist, going up.
He arrived at the top of the road about 45 minutes behind us.
Going up mountains like this is much too dangerous. You could slip and >>> fall. You could get a hangnail. You could get to the top just to find >>> the Bordeaux is corked. A friend of mine in high school went to the
top of Tantalus in her boyfriend's car and wound up pregnant. It's just >>> not worth the risk.
No, it's much safer to go mountain climbing on Wake Island. There's no >>> need to use the lower gears on the bicycle and if something goes wrong,
the officer's club is able to deliver a martini anywhere when it is
needed.
Plus when you get back to Honolulu you'll be able to tell all the young
girls elaborate stories of how you climbed to the highest peak on the
island there.
--scott
Thank you. Whilst I was interested in the experiences of previous
contributors to this thread, thank you for your humour, a feature seldom
now seen here except for Dimensional Traveller's comments.
o_O Is that good or bad?
On 4/10/2025 2:48 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
In article <vt91nn$3h2kb$2@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36
<bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
On 4/10/25 00:54, Charles Packer wrote:
I'm going to Honolulu next month for my mother's 104th birthday.
So I hope Pele will bless me with an eruption like that while I'm
there and I'll hop a flight to the Big Island in a heartbeat.
It is very "hit or miss". Just because it is erupting today, doesn't
mean that it will be erupting tomorrow, or even in two hours. Good luck.
But, even if it's not erupting, Kilauea is beautiful and worth the visit.
It's dry right now so you won't see the sort of orchids you'd see
later in
the year but it's still magnificent.
--scott
If you have time, and can manage the altitude, visit the Mauna Loa Observatory. You need to go on one of the jitney tours (no car rentals).
You won't be able to enter the telescope domes, but the view is other worldly.
It's at nearly 14,000 feet, and we stopped for a while at 9000 (where
the base station is) to acclimate.
Our tour was timed to start descending just after sunset, and the driver stopped partway down to give us a sky tour, using a powerful handheld
laser as a pointer, in the darkest sky you'll probably ever experience.
pt
Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
Sounds tiring, but can your spin system make you do it with a
40% oxygen deficiency?
To add to my story: On the way up, we passed a cyclist, going up.
He arrived at the top of the road about 45 minutes behind us.
Going up mountains like this is much too dangerous. You could slip and
fall. You could get a hangnail. You could get to the top just to find
the Bordeaux is corked. A friend of mine in high school went to the
top of Tantalus in her boyfriend's car and wound up pregnant. It's just
not worth the risk.
No, it's much safer to go mountain climbing on Wake Island. There's no
need to use the lower gears on the bicycle and if something goes wrong,
the officer's club is able to deliver a martini anywhere when it is needed.
Plus when you get back to Honolulu you'll be able to tell all the young
girls elaborate stories of how you climbed to the highest peak on the
island there.
--scott
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