The Rain Falls Traditional Cache
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The waterfalls are only there when the rain runoff is active but the terrain is more difficult than the terrain rating describes when it is wet. Take a lot of reliable mosquito repellent.
This is a nice quaint spot in the Hauula Forest Reserve that not many people know about. I highly recommend visiting this spot after a good rain storm. There are several small waterfalls all along this wash as long as there is a runoff. The runoff will usually flow for a few days after a good storm. There are flash flood warning signs so you probably don't want to be around during a heavy storm but I’ve been up there several times during light storms and have never seen a significant runoff. The cache is near a 15 foot waterfall.
To get there, turn on Maakua Rd which is just north of the 7-Eleven in Hauula. Follow the road straight about a quarter mile until it forks and veers off to the left. Park near that fork (due to theft, you may want to park on Kam Hwy) and walk up the right side of the fork which is a small road that continues straight and toward the Hauula Forest Reserve. Hike along that road for about a quarter of mile until you see a gated maintenance building. Walk around it and continue straight until the road makes a sharp right turn up a hill to a water tank. Instead of following the road right, take the trail straight ahead. Follow this main trail for 300 ft or so until it turns sharp left and crosses a wash. Instead of following the trail to the left, look right and you will see a small trail to your right that heads up a slope then follows this wash. This is the stream/wash and trail you will follow to the cache. The cache is about a quarter of a mile hike from this point. The trail is small and somewhat overgrown but it does take you the whole way to the falls by the cache. It crosses the stream/wash a couple times.
Note: If you loose the trail, backtrack a little and look for the spot it crosses the stream. Please don't bushwhack and blaze a new trail. Part of the beauty of this area is that it is relatively untouched.
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