Haleakala, Maui

Has anyone here ridden UP Haleakala? Would love to hear your experience.

Michael

 

Great ride! The road is good, the scenery good. I was in good hill riding shape at the time for
hills so it didn't completely toast me. I started about 35 miles from the top fairly early because
the sun and heat can get bad although the day I did it, it got cooler and cloudier at the top. You
will drink lots of water and I did start feeling the altitude effects towards the top above 8500
feet because I hadn't ridden at alitudes above 6500 prior to this ride. I rode with someone and we
stopped a bit to enjoy the scenery, so it took us about 5 hours as I recall. The ride down is
anticlimatic IMO but people pay to do it.

Kendall

"Papayahed1" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone here ridden UP Haleakala? Would love to hear your experience.
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> Michael

 

Thanks for the response. Sounds like you had a great time. I'm going to try it in late June. I
understand it is only a 5-6% grade, but goes on forever... Michael

>Subject: Re: Haleakala, Maui From: "Kendall" ckensto(nospam)@comcast.net Date: 5/18/2003 10:51 AM
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>Great ride! The road is good, the scenery good. I was in good hill riding shape at the time for
>hills so it didn't completely toast me. I started about 35 miles from the top fairly early because
>the sun and heat can get bad although the day I did it, it got cooler and cloudier at the top. You
>will drink lots of water and I did start feeling the altitude effects towards the top above 8500
>feet because I hadn't ridden at alitudes above 6500 prior to this ride. I rode with someone and we
>stopped a bit to enjoy the scenery, so it took us about 5 hours as I recall. The ride down is
>anticlimatic IMO but people pay to do it.
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>Kendall
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>Subject: Re: Haleakala, Maui From: "Kendall" ckensto(nospam)@comcast.net Date: 5/18/2003 10:51 AM
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>Great ride! The road is good, the scenery good. I was in good hill riding shape at the time for
>hills so it didn't completely toast me. I started about 35 miles from the top fairly early because
>the sun and heat can get bad although the day I did it, it got cooler and cloudier at the top. You
>will drink lots of water and I did start feeling the altitude effects towards the top above 8500
>feet because I hadn't ridden at alitudes above 6500 prior to this ride. I rode with someone and we
>stopped a bit to enjoy the scenery, so it took us about 5 hours as I recall. The ride down is
>anticlimatic IMO but people pay to do it.
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>Kendall
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>"Papayahed1" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Has anyone here ridden UP Haleakala? Would love to hear your experience.

Do a DejaNews search (dejanews.com) on the following-

"Richard Brockie" Haleakala

That will give you Richard Brockie's *excellent* write up on his trip up the mountain, originally
posted here on 2003-02-20.

--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles http://www.ChainReactionBicycles.com

 

Thanks, Mike. I'll look that one up. There is also an interesting articile in _Bicycling_ by Steve
Medden (Dec 2002) http://www.bicycling.com/article/0,5073,3623,00.html?category_id=362 about his
experience.

Hope I'll be able to add one more to this NG when I get back in July.

Aloha-Michael

>Subject: Re: Haleakala, Maui From: "Mike Jacoubowsky" [email protected] Date: 5/25/03 11:51 PM
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>> Has anyone here ridden UP Haleakala? Would love to hear your experience.
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>Do a DejaNews search (dejanews.com) on the following-
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>"Richard Brockie" Haleakala
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>That will give you Richard Brockie's *excellent* write up on his trip up the mountain, originally
>posted here on 2003-02-20.
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>--Mike-- Chain Reaction Bicycles http://www.ChainReactionBicycles.com
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