Na'ili'ili-haele WaterFalls Cache Traditional Geocache
Na'ili'ili-haele WaterFalls Cache
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A spy treking adventure on the road to Hana where you infiltrate 4
waterfalls. sequential waterfalls
| Note: This hike, although challenging, is fun and
well-known enough to be fully detailed in many travel books. There
is even guided tours that go to the first few waterfalls on this
adventure. However the actual cache is about 600 meters farther
upstream then most people go (although the last waterfall is also
detailed in the travel books) and Requires
about 100 feet of swimming so be prepared to take off your shoes
and put everything in a plastic bag and swim. What I
find works best is if you bring some garbage bags with you and when
you get to the swimming part put your shoes and anything else you
do not want to get wet in the bag with some air so it all floats
and swim. Do not attempt this in the rain
because of Flash Floods !! |
| PLEASE READ THE LOGS OF THIS CACHE!!! There have been
many geocachers attempting this cache who take the wrong path in
the bamboo forest and got lost.. read the logs of this cache PLEASE
so you do not make the same mistakes !!!! |
Bamboo forest |
In case you don't have a book (like Maui Revealed pg 235)
Park across from a small grove of Cook Island pine trees 6/10 of a
mile past mile marker 6 on Hwy 360 (the road to Hana).
Parking is at:
20' 53.124 N
156' 12.483W
Follow the trail down through the bamboo, cross the stream and
follow the trail upstream after crossing the stream. There is a
tree blocking your way to the left - climb around it and keep going
upstream. You'll soon hear waterfall #1 - some people miss this
waterfall (even the book misses it) it is a small stream that feeds
into the Na'ili'ili-haele stream from the left... the trail passes
right by it but the trail is covered by 25 to 30 foot high bamboo
so you do not see it unless you get off the trail (see photo of
waterfall #1). |
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Keep moving upstream. Cross the stream by boulder hopping, and
continue the trail on the other side of the stream. You'll soon
come to waterfall #2 (first waterfall from the Na'ili'ili-haele
stream) . The trail continues around this pool by following the
trail to the left. A few meters upstream from this will will come
accross waterfall #3 . This is a big pool for swimming and it a
GREAT spot for swimming. This is as far as MOST tourists will get.
(But you're not most tourists...) |
Waterfall #1 (missed by most) |
Waterfall #3 (#2 from Na'ili'ili-haele stream) |
On the left side of the falls is a steep trail which leads to a
12-foot sheer rock wall and a ROPE hanging down its face (EDIT:
there is now a ladder on this rock wall making this climb a LOT
easier). Climb the rope to the top of falls #3, and continue
walking upstream.
Here's where it separates the superagents from the tourists:
keep going upstream at some point the sides of the stream bed are
going to get too steep to walk along in fact there will be cliffs
on both sides of you so you're going to have to jump in and swim
100 feet upstream to a small waterfall (approx. 6 feet tall) which
you will have to climb.
Once you reach the top, walk around a bend and you'll see your
target - a 40 foot waterfall and beautiful swimming pool. The sun
hits the pool most of the day, so you can warm up from your
swim. |
The Coordinates posted should get you within 15 Meters of where the
cache is hidden.. Because of the steep rock walls it is hard to get
a really good reading.. took TWO GPSs up there and one GPS was
reading 20* 52.711N and 156* 12.637W While the other GPS at the
same spot was reading 20* 52.791N and 156* 12.634W ?!?!?
The cache is hidden along the cliff wall. It is
NOT in one of the small caves
that you see under and along the cliff falls. You should
NOT put your self in danger
finding it and should NOT have
to climb up the falls or put yourself in any place where you can
fall so don't do that. It is NOT buried. It is in a PERFECT spot
for a geocache. Almost like the place where it is hidden was made
for the geocache to sit in. From where it is hidden the water from
the waterfall and the pool will NEVER reach it so it will not wash
away in a flash flood and is far enough away from the pool that
mugglers should not find it. read the Hints/clues for some big
hints..
Cache is a 8 quart tupperware box so you can bring semi-large
items to this cache... just bring bags to keep them from getting
wet on your swim
Sometimes there is cash in this cache.. If you find cash only
take half of the cash unless it is only like 2 dollars or
less..
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