On the advice of “Auntie Juanita,” a lovely woman we met at the Hilo Coffee Mill, we hiked the Kilauea Iki trail (starting DOWN the stairs, so we could go UP the switchbacks … vice versa would have sucked a whole bunch). It was somewhere between 5-7 miles, I think, by the time we got un-lost trying to find the parking lot where we’d left the car. An amazing experience to hike across the surface of a (still steaming, but mostly dormant) volcanic crater!
