Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

KM: You, yourself you heard, you knew, you saw old people go up, take piko up the
mountain
KL: Yes.
KM: Must feel a very strong attachment
KL: Our piko is in a puka at Pu‘u Makani.
KM: ‘Ae, Pu‘u Makani.
KL: He and I go all the way. I hold the horse, I watch him climb up, he go.
KM: Amazing!
KL: He come back, he get his bag empty right on top his back. They put ‘em, all of ours in a
bottle. The oldest one to the last one, he had.
KM: Hmm. What do you think, how come your ‘ohana…and like on Mauna Kea or daddy them
taking you folks up to Hualälai, Pu‘u Makani. How come ‘ohana do that
KL: I don’t know, they no tell you know, they no tell. That’s why me and my brother we figure
when we make, we should go home up there. Our piko is there. But, like the rest below,
my brother and I they all, you know, high school thinking.
KM: Different, already.
KL: Different, yeah.
KM: There must have been this strong aloha, attachment. They look at the mountain and you
know just like you feel peace.
KL: Yes.
KM: Like when you go up to Mauna Kea, Waiau, mehameha.
KL: Yes, that’s right.
KM: You just feel…
KL: Yes.
Describes trail and sites passed when traveling trail from Kalai‘eha to the summit of Mauna Kea:
KM: You know on the summit of Mauna Kea…and this is that Map 701. Here’s what you were
talking about. Here’s Kalai‘eha, Humu‘ula Sheep Station.
KL: That’s right.
KM: This is the old trail.
KL: That’s the old trail.
KM: This map is 1915. The old trail coming up, past Lepeamoa.
KL: Yes.
KM: You go through the slippery, the cinder cones, Keonehehe‘e side, Kaluakäko‘i, adze
quarry section over here. Come up, here’s Waiau, then when you come up to the
summit. I don’t know, did you ever hear the name of some of the pu‘u like Lilinoe,
Poli‘ahu
KL: No.
KM: You don’t remember
KL: I never.
KM: They just called it Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea– “Ka Piko Kaulana o ka ‘Äina”
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:186