Dillingham Air Field

If you want to practice walking 556 meters in under 5 km, just hike the Kealia trail starting on the mauka side of the Dillingham Airfield.

Joan at the start of the Kealia trail

The trail itself is challenged by rock outcroppings that you should be sure you pay attention to.

At times the trail surface becomes less challenging, but, not less steep.

Our packs were filled with water, weights and towels to bring their weight to 10 pounds. As the month progresses we will increase weight.

We know the first few days of hiking along the Camino Norte are very challenging as to steepness of grade and distance to the next overnight. We have two months to toughen up the legs and mind. Why not be in Hawaii. Tonight a Parade and Fireworks on the beach.

 

Stu uses MotionX-GPS on the iPhone and is sharing with you the following track:

Name:		Dillingham
Date:		Mar 3, 2013 8:27 am
Map: (valid until Sep 1, 2013)		View on Map
Distance:		20.4 miles
Elapsed Time:		3:50:19
Avg Speed:		5.3 mph
Max Speed:		49.3 mph
Avg Pace:		11' 18" per mile
Min Altitude:		11 ft
Max Altitude:		1,852 ft
Start Time:		2013-03-03T18:27:05Z
Start Location:
	Latitude:	21º 34' 41" N
	Longitude:	158º 12' 28" W
End Location:
	Latitude:	21º 29' 19" N
	Longitude:	158º 02' 24" W

When you click on "View on Map" , we forgot to turn the GPS off so many of the road miles are not a part of the walk

 

 

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Getting Started

This is the view toward San Francisco from our front window

We are so conveniently located regarding the San Feancisco airport. At the bottom of the hill that we live on, a bus making two stops drops us off directly at the United Airlines entryway. The flight to Hawaii is 5 hours. Just about the time flying becomes a burden, you can feel the power being diminished and the pilot announcing 20 minutes to landing. You know the tropical breezes, sublime temperature and the relaxed island style awaits. Packing our packs is easy. Shorts and shirts will cover the entire month's clothing needs.

 

This the view from the window of our 19th floor living room. In the fore ground is the Ala Wai Canal.

The purpose of this blog is to practise using Bogsy and an Apple IPad mini. In the posting of our past Camino pilgrimages we have utilized the good graces of John and Robin Pigott.

http://agoodwalkunspoiled.blogspot.com/

We would send both our descriptives and photos to them residing in Oregon; and, they would enter both into our blog. Now it seems technology has replaced them. In fact they have lead the way. Recently returning from a winter camino pilgrimage along the Camino Frances, they wrote their entire blog using an ipadmini, Blogsy and a digital camera.

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Practicing for the Camino Norte

Stu and Joan are spending the month of March 2013 on the island of Oahu hiking in preparation for the Camino Norte in May 2013. Oahu has many challenging trails with good elevations. we will post pictures and describe each trail that we practice on.

Relaxing on the Camino Frances

Dressed for the Camino Plata

 

If you would like to visit our other sites:

http://www.caminowalkabout.blogspot.com

http://www.caminowalkaboutplata.blogspot.com

http://www.caminowalkaboutingles.blogspot.com

 

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