Waipio Valley and Muliwai Trail

After crossing the river we are treated to the "Z trail". It is only about a 30+ percent grade.
Strictly hike a bike!

At the top there is actually a pretty good trail. Still have to walk a few sections but all in all over 90% rideable.

Some really good sections actually!

We did not have the time or energy to go down into Waimanu Valley but sure was beautiful.

We might not have been able to ride up it, but on the way down........ we actually could not ride it all either!

Check out the road on the otherside of the valley. Yikes we still have to ride up that to get back to the truck!

A little beach riding before the river crossing.

Almost at the top!

One Fine Winter Day

This Sunday we did a little winter riding....Island Style!!!
Departed from Waimea around noon.
Rode up through the pastures on into the forest.

Climb up to the marshy plateau...

Road gives way to single track...

Single Track follows irrigation canal....

Where's the trail?

How deep is that stream?

Made It!!

After riding back out you are treated with great descent back to town.

Kalopa-Our Favorite Ride

Dropping into a dry wash. This streambed rarely has any water flowing in it.

A little bark is good for the mountain biker's diet.

Former pro racers are always the biggest clowns.

A little log hopping in the parking lot for warmup.

It doesn't get much prettier than this, with leaf covered trails lined with ferns and trees.

There's a great log in the parking lot to practice on. Hop up on one end, ride down the log and wheelie off the other end. Great practice at the end of a ride.

Kalopa's a great place to practice riding log piles. There's a bunch of them throughout the park.

Here's the map of the trails. The old jeep road up the center of the park is right behind this map station.

Kalopa is a 615 acre state park located on the northern side of the island above Honokaa. It's a heavily planted forest of native and non-native trees with about 6-7 miles of singletrack trails for hiking and biking. Best of all the trails are actually real dirt! Come to the Big Island and you will understand. Being the most recently created of the Hawaiian Islands, there is very little dirt and we mostly ride on lava rock trails.