30 miles later...

Well, it's about time that I report and share pictures from my biology class 4 day backpacking trip;
It was great! There are so many details that I could explain, but then this post would turn into a novel, which I don't want to do. I'll try and just give a brief summary, and share the pics (which is all you care about anyway, right?).


The trip was at the beginning of Nov., and it was located on Maui at Haleakala Crater (Haleakala National Park). Our first day consisted of leaving campus at 3:30am to catch our flight, then once we arrived, we backpacked for 10 miles. Needless to say, it was a super long and rough day.

General area of where we hiked to for the first day

In fact, throughout the whole 4 days, all of us were pretty dang sore, and walking around the cabins at night and in the morning like old women. Although we were sore and stiff, we still had a really great time and it was an awesome experience. It was incredible to me that one place could have two completely different habitats.

This area shown in the picture above, was thought to be as close as you could get as to how the moon is really like, that it was used as the testing sight previous to when the US went to the moon! Even though it was so desolate, it was absolutely beautiful.

(this was my "National Geographic" picture...)

Even though by the end of the trip I was dirty, sweaty, exhausted, sore, had blisters on my feet, and bruised toenails, I felt very accomplished and really enjoyed being away from civilization (although we did stay in cabins along the way). I'm so grateful that I had this wonderful opportunity to learn more about geology and biology, and also added appreciation for the beautiful earth that God has blessed us with.

(Nene-Hawaiian goose, Hawaiian state bird. They were so cute! they make these cute little moans, almost like a moo from a cow.)

(the end! we made it! We are pointing at the four places we started, stayed over night, and ended at)

Here are some short little videos to kind of give you an idea of what it looked like