Very cool! I weigh about 185 right now and I'd be real happy if I can reach the summit in under 5 hours. I'm off to Maui on Friday with my bike. Probably attack the big hill on Sunday! Hope to get started early and be back down to Paia in the early afternoon for some of those mahi mahi fish & chips.

Speaking of mahi mahi, we reeled a couple in this past September on a charter boat out of Kailua-Kona. That sucker was on my plate 2 hours later. Talk about fresh! It's an ugly fish but damn tasty. This pic is of my brother-in-law holding the catch: