Another rainy day, another hike up Koko Crater..well, these shots are from last week. The last time I did the crater rim trail, I couldnt find the trail up from the botanical garden so I decided to grab my trail ribbons and mark the trail a bit so I could find it next time.

If you do this trail from the botanical gardens, park and talk the road/trail to the left side. Once you see these trees, you are close to the trail up.

Follow this sign prob 20feet till you see:

Thats the trail up to the east rim of Koko Crater. Don't do it like me and just trailblaze up the side!!

This is the hard part of the trail. Along the side of the trail is a nice batch of very sharp cactus!!

Here's a panoramic shot from the top of the trail up.

Been to the Pali Notches? Well, here's the Koko Crater notches!! errr notch.

And another pano from a little further along the trail back up to the observation decks. On sunny days like this, bring a lot of water!

Crater view of Sandy beach. Not much surf today...

And bird eye view of the parking lot for Helona blowhole. This is where you park if you ever want to do the trail up Koko Crater via the stone arch/bridge.

View of the side of the crater. Still pretty green, glad we have lotsa rain this summer.

And back to the top. Caught shot of some random hikers coming up. Even tho it looks scary, the east rim if pretty easy.

And here's my stats for the whole trip.  Not that hard at all and doesnt take too long.