Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Laid out and paved the road. Did you folks, maintain, take care of roads and stuff
No.
No, you just
Just used it [chuckling]. That is still going on today. Nobody wants to claim that road.
Funny, yeah.
No, not funny, seriously.
Yes, you’re right.
Whoever’s claiming it, get a bad accident on there [chuckles, shaking head]. If Johnny
told you that, I would certainly go on what he said. Johnny would know.
Yes. Do you want to go sometime, we could drive it real easily. You know slowly,
carefully. If you want to go back up Ahu-a-‘Umi or something like that sometime.
Not especially.
Not especially. Okay, I just wasn’t sure, if you were just pulling my leg.
I was only kidding you.
Okay.
No, we used to go up there for picnics before, on horseback. That’s before any roads
ever came through [chuckling].
Some history… Nui ke aloha!
[Recorder off and back on – return to car and begin drive back to Waimea.]
…right out of the park entry, this is a part of the old road.
That’s part of the old road, right.
This is the alignment that you’re going to see on that 1869 map when they were laying it
out.
Uh-hmm.
Okay. Just like you said though, coming straight through here and the only real difference
I guess, is that section going below what is the Girl Scout Camp and over.
Girl Scout Camp, yeah.
Did you spend any time at all on Mauna Loa
On Mauna Loa, no. Except you called Pu‘ulehua on Mauna Loa
Well, it is, isn’t it
That’s the only place we used to go up, before we had our place on Hualälai. Kahuku is
on Mauna Loa.
KM: It is, yeah. But you never went up the mountain or anything like that. You know that 1950
lava flow that came off of Mauna Loa. Were you out at Kahuku When did the ranch give
up Kahuku side
RG: I was at Kahuä. It was about ‘49 or ‘50. That 1950 flow that you mentioned, we went out
in a boat and watched it come into the ocean.
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You did! Wow, that must have been some trip! I heard that, what was his name… Yee
Chee, who used to sort of take care of C.Q. Yee Hop. His wife Amoi is still living. They
got stuck between the flows, they were trying to open up the gates, to let the pipi out and
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