During my recent trip to Hawaii, I enjoyed a 13.3 mile, 8 hour hike through Haleakala Crater on Maui. After watching the sunrise from the 10,000 ft summit, I drove to the visitor center to hitch a ride between two trailheads. I started hiking around a 9:45 AM at the Sliding Sands Trailhead (lower left on the map). This trail begins at an elevation of 9,800 ft and generally descends for the first ten miles to the 6,600 ft. Then, it steeply regains 1,400 ft before ending at the Halemau'u trailhead (upper right on the map), where I had left my car.
This post is my first attempt to integrate a Google Map outside of the main Google Map environment, which I find very difficult to use. While this process proved difficult as well, it promises to be more versatile. For example, the former split my track in to six separate paths; the latter kept it in one piece.
About Me
Pogwatigue Perambulations
Pogwatigue: A Pottawatomie word meaning 'running water.' Early settlers chose this word as the original name for my hometown, Niles, Michigan.
Perambulation: roam, stroll, inspection of an area on foot.
My intent for this blog is to catalog my various local, regional, national, and perhaps someday international explorations. Originally, I found the blog a good vehicle to publish Google maps on the internet and all my initial posts have such a map embedded, but I don't limit myself to that genre. Almost all the posts will have a personal, geographic element. For the title, I chose Pogwatigue due to its ties to my roots roots and perambulations as a fancy, alliterative word to describe the content.
Perambulation: roam, stroll, inspection of an area on foot.
My intent for this blog is to catalog my various local, regional, national, and perhaps someday international explorations. Originally, I found the blog a good vehicle to publish Google maps on the internet and all my initial posts have such a map embedded, but I don't limit myself to that genre. Almost all the posts will have a personal, geographic element. For the title, I chose Pogwatigue due to its ties to my roots roots and perambulations as a fancy, alliterative word to describe the content.
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