{"id":6456,"date":"2015-04-04T21:42:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T07:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2015-04-04T22:13:51","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T08:13:51","slug":"maui-2015-3-waihee-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/?p=6456","title":{"rendered":"Maui 2015 3 &#8211; Waihe&#8217;e Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We actually found this flower on our hike today. Happy Easter everyone!<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-happy-easter-square.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"600\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\nYesterday, Oliver played baseball with the girls on the golf course.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150403-golf-baseball-2.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150403-golf-baseball-1.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\nThe view of the golf course from their window.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150403-golf-baseball-sunset.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Today, we went hiking on the Waihe&#8217;e ridge trail in West Maui:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-01-start.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It started out steep in a pasture, but soon we were in the forest and there were lots of nice plants.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-02-nightshade.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-03-fern.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Then we reached the top of the ridge and had some nice views back toward Kahului and central Maui. The trade winds were blowing, so clouds hung above us.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-04-view.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-05-view.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A little further, there were some nice views up into the valley, but the peaks were in the clouds:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-16-resting-spot.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But we hiked on uphill:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-06-ridge-hikers.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-07-trail.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-08-l.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-09-trail.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Eventually, we were hiking in the clouds, and the trail was getting muddy, so we stopped for the last pictures before turning around:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-10-al.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-11-sl.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People told us the hike continued up the ridge, and sometimes you could see it through the clouds, but those who did continue on up probably didn&#8217;t get any views today. On the way down, we saw the cloud moisture collecting on some native &#8216;ohia lehua blossoms:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-12-ohia.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-13-fungus.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We had the same nice views on the hike back down:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-14-hike-down.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-15-hike-down2.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-waihee-17-north.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Back at home, Sonja helped the girls paint Easter eggs and decorate an Easter tree branch with them (an Austrian tradition).<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-eggs.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-eggs1.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-eggs2.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-eggs3.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"450\" width=\"600\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At night, the girls started playing dress-up instead of getting ready for bed:<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/images2\/10\/2\/150404-easter-dressup.jpg' alt=\"\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We actually found this flower on our hike today. Happy Easter everyone! Yesterday, Oliver played baseball with the girls on the golf course. The view of the golf course from their window. Today, we went hiking on the Waihe&#8217;e ridge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6464,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions\/6464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/simplify-your-life.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}