So I have spent the last week or so exploring canyons all over the beautiful island of Maui.  It was an excellent trip due to the company of all of the people featured in some of the photo’s below and some great canyons.  That said due to time and weather we didn’t scratch the surface of what can be done on this island.  I look forward to future trips…

Trip highlights:

• Spent most of the week in the Hana area on the rainy Northeast coast of the island.  Unfortunately it was a bit more wet then one would like…  Both of the two canyons we did in the area (Eden and Carpool (not their real names))  flashed within hours of our crew exiting the water course.   Those close calls and heavily saturated soil caused us to shift plans to other areas of the island.
• To avoid the heavy rains on the Northeast coast we drove around to the south coast to a dry canyon that followed an old lava flow. Much drier but even so heavy rains late in the afternoon/evening following our descent caused some of the canyons in the area to flash.
• After taking a day to do a little sightseeing we headed to the northwest coast to do our final canyon of the trip. The pictures in the slide show below are just teasers, there will likely be multiple videos coming out of this trip given all of the footage taken by myself and others on the trip.

I won’t be posting beta on the canyons done during this trip, yet.  Too many outstanding issues in the area and there are others that should put it up first.   I will be putting together Maui canyoning overview to pull together all of the lessons learned from this trip to help prepare those who are interested in canyoning in this unique and challenging environment. I hope to put this up in the canyon beta area in the next several weeks.

Many thanks to the people who provided beta and support throughout the trip including DB, DJ, LC, EW, Reni and Melissa, and of course the whole 2011 Maui crew.

All of the photos were taken with a Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-TX10