Reaching the peak Kamaohanui (Oahu, Hawaii)

[oahuhiker]

I woke this a.m. feeling tired and aching. I had come down with a low-grade fever and nasal congestion a couple days prior and had been fighting to shake the bug. Cleve called me earlier in the week. "Let's try for Kamaohanui on Saturday," says Mr Rich. Kapa Reero, one of our usual hiking comrades, is camping at Pahole so he can't be with us. Ming Ching is banned from trail clearing so he's out too. So it'll be Cleve and I. Then this bug hits. I won't be in top shape. Doubts clutter my mind. "I'll break it to Cleve on Saturday morning," I tell myself. "He'll understand."

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