MAUI REVEALED 2013 FULL

The view from the actual summit is nowhere near as immersive as from the Visitor Center where you can walk right up to the rim. Practical tip: Be sure to park at the Visitor Center parking lot, not at the summit parking lot, another 1/2 mile up the road. If you want a convenient parking spot, arrive early! Otherwise you could find yourself walking a long ways in the dark.

MAUI REVEALED 2013 FULL

The parking lot at the Visitor Center near the summit was 1/3 full when we arrived at 4:45 am (a full hour before actual sunrise) and quickly filled within the next half hour. I donвЂ™t know how many people were there, but IвЂ™d say several hundred. Speaking of people: DonвЂ™t expect to be the only person at the top of HaleakalДЃ experiencing this magical event. Many people had brought blankets and looked like weirdly cocooned aliens. We packed warm clothes explicitly for sunrise at HaleakalДЃ (you donвЂ™t really need them for anything else on Maui) but even so I was less than comfortable. The wind chill brought that вЂњbalmyвЂќ 46вЏ down to freezing, or even below it. Sustained means the wind blows all the time it never stops. The overnight low was 46вЏ-not too horrible- but there were sustained winds of 25-40 mph. Even in spite of the weather conditions at the top. Was it worth it? I think the photos below speak for themselves: Some people say itвЂ™s overrated and a waste of a good nightвЂ™s sleep, others (the majority) say itвЂ™s a once-in-a-lifetime thing you simply we do while on Maui. HaleakalДЃ! Much has been written about this magical, mystical and-according to some people-sacred experience. Why would we do such a crazy thing when weвЂ™re on vacation? Sunrise at the summit of 10,023 ft. Today we got up at the ungodly hour of 2:30 am and headed out at 3 am.

Maui revealed 2013