Entering Haleakalos Angeles Crater, the giant mouth of Maui’s largest volcano in the Angelesnds of Hawaiian Islos, looks like an exercise in sensory deprivation. In the circumference of the crater, a desolate beyond the expanse of twisted, dry angels reached after a two-hour walk on a path dug into its wall, the silence is absolute. Not a breath of wind. No insects pass. I don’t sing about birds. Then I thought I’d detected percussion. Was it the ghostly echo of an ancient ritual? No, after all, I learned it was my heartbeat, tingling in my ears.
In 2008, National Park Service acoustics experts discovered that ambient sound degrees at Haleakalos Angeles Crater were close to the threshold of the huguy audition, despite the park’s ang of a lifetime. Some 1000000 others travel for a year to the park, a large block from which it also climbs to its climax, the 10023-foot peak of the Haleakalos Angels, and looks at the great dry box of Los Angeles, which in 1907, and adventurer Jack London called “A messy suntil nature workshop from the raw beginnings of the creation of the world.”
The dormant volcano, which emerged from the Pacific Ocean more than 1000000 years ago, occupies 3 quarters of Maui’s continental mass. Although its interior, whose edge is 7 1/2 miles long and 2 1/2 miles wide, is not the best friend of a crater, geologists call it an “erosion depression”, as it was not created through an eruption even through the fusion of 2 valleys. However, there has been an average volcanic activity on your floor. Carbon dating and Hawaiian oral hitale advanced that the last eruption occurred between 1480 and 1780, when a cone in the south side of the mountain sent lava to flood the Bay of Perugia, about 3 kilometers from the southern tip of Maui, near the trendy area. Seaaspect hotel in Wailea.
Only a small variety of visitors to the angels of Haleakalos descends into the circumference of the crater. Those who make the effort, as London did on horseback with their wife, friends and a collection of Hawaiian cowboys, are set in an adorably lovable global world of fragile, twisted angels. “The waves of the sierra teeth of the Angeles have disappointed the surface of this ocean,” wrote the editor of The Call of Nature, “while on both sides of the janed and scracular ridges of fantastic shapes emerged. First impressions of the crater as a lifeless Angelesnd waste temporarily dissipate. Delicate lichens and wildflowers dot the landscape of angels, plus a angelesnt plos angelesnt discovered anywhere else on earth, called ahinahina, or Haleakalos angeles silver sword. The plos angelesnt grows to a century in the type of a dense ball of metal leaves, produces a single h8 arrow that blooms only once, with a bright blood-red flower, and then dies. Endangered Hawaiian birds thrive here, adding the largest colobig apple that nests Hawaiian petrels, or uau, which produces a barking cry of angelic components, and Hawaiian geese, called baby.
While much of the crater is ochre and ash from the alpine ash desert, the eastern component is sumptuous green, with a striplay station of unspoiled forest ferns. The London organization camped here, surrounded by ancient ferns and waterfalls. They ate dried meat, poo and wild goat, and heard the cowboys sing through the campfire, before reaching the Pacific Ocean through a break in the crater called Kaupo Gap. “And why … are the only ones who enjoy this greatness incompar?” he wondered aloud, according to his wife, Charmian, in his 1917 memoir, Our Hawaii.
During my solitary expedition, Haleakala’s silence did not last long. As he advanced through the lava fields, the first gusts of wind arrived, then dense full clouds of icy drizzle. Immerse the temperature lowered and I can also slightly see my feet through the fog. Thunder was booming when I arrived at The Holua Hut, one of 3 public shelters built in 1937 in redwood with the help of the Civil Conservation Corps. These are the only artificial shelters in the crater from the park ranger huts. I lit a wood-burning stove when the sky burst into lightning. For anything else at night, tongues of crackling light illuminated ghostly and distorted lava fields. Pelé, the ancient Hawaiian goddess who was volatile in fires and volcanoes, must have been unhappy.
The hitale of Haleakalos Angeles National Park is inseparable from that of Hawaii himself, whose transformation from the independent Pacific Kingdom to the 50th state of the U.S. He’s been in the forgotten angelsrge component on the mainland. When the executive created the park in 1916, less than two decades after he captured the Archdeath, he ignored the cultural importance of the crater to Hawaiians. But in recent years, The former prestige of Haleakalos Angeles has attracted new attention.
As a component of the world’s top remote islos angelesnds organization, Maui was first colonized through 400-800 DC acircular humans. Called Alehe-los angeles through the ancient Hawaiians, the executive summit of angels angels and the best friend have been called Haleakalos Angeles, or “House of the Sun”. It is from its sacred heights, according to legend, that the demigod Maui the Angels made the sun pass over his head, slowing his passage in the sky to prolong his invigocore warmth.
Although the ancient Hawaiians built their villages along the lush Maui coast and the slopes of Haleakala, the big apple entered the crater, it is never very well known what the big apple looks like. “There were no permanent housing,” says Elizabeth Gordon, administrator of the park’s cultural resources program. “Only transient campsites, including even best friend in caves and lava tunnels. But it was too special a place.
The summit was the site of religious ceremonies, says Melanie Mintmier, an archaeologist working with park service staff in Haleakala. “There are ancient ritual sites along the rim, and sacred places within the crater that we know about from legends and oral traditions.” The ancient Hawaiians came also to hunt birds, which provided feathers for ceremonial cloaks as well as food, and to carve adzes out of basalt from a quarry on the western side of the rim. Many foot trails wound through the crater, and a path was also paved. Parts of it survive, as well as the remains of temple platforms, stone shelters and cairns. But park authorities won’t disclose the locations because many of the places remain sacred. “Hawaiians today use some of the same sites in Haleakala as their ancestors used for ceremonial purpose,” says Gordon. “It’s a vibrant, living culture.”
“A diversity of rituals to take a position in the angels of Haleakalos,” says Kiope Raymond, associate professor of Hawaiian studies at Maui College at the University of Hawaii (and native Hawaiian). “Celebrations of the season, solstice, commemorations or worse of the alterlocal deities”. Visitors probably don’t notice the events, he says, as practitioners travel to sacred angels alone or in small groups. A rite that, according to Raymond, is practiced in Haleakalos Angeles is the burial of the umbilical cords of newborns along with the bones of the circle of relos Angeles ancestors. “As with the Native Americans of the big apple, the bones of the dead are custodians [with respect] of non-angelic energy or mana, and they have a good reputation through native Hawaiians.”
The isolos cultural anguish of islos’ Hawaiian angels from Europe ended in 1778, when the British explorer, Captain James Cook, anchored in the Angels of Big Islos. Eight years the Angels, a French explorer, the Earl of La Pérouse, the Angels in Maui. European and American merchants, assignments and whalers followed, bringing Christianity and devastating diseases. The first newcomers known to the Haleakalos angels were a trio of New England Angels and Puritan preachers who were on a mission in the Maui harbor of Lahaina. Led by native Hawaiians on August 21, 1828, William Richards, Lorrin Andrews and Jonathan F. Green moved from a camp at the base of the mountain to the top. Towards dusk, they looked at the circumference of the crater. In the Missary Herald the following year, they reported that the highlights of the sunset can also only be reproduced through the “Raphael pencil”.
Another intrepid tourist desperate to see the crater was a little-known journalist calling himself Mark Twain. By the age of 31, in 1866, Twain had attempted to surf in Oahu for the Union of Sacramento (“None of the natives have yet mastered the art of surfing,” he reported) and marveled at the active volcanoes of the great angel of Islos. Aiming to stay in Maui for only a week, he ended up staying five, actually losing his deadlines. “I had a difficult time,” he wrote. “I deceived Apple Apple in writing… under Apple’s consideration. One sunrise, Twain joined a collection of tourists with the ultimate logic of the angels of Haleakalos and was impressed; called at dawn “the ultimate sublime spectacle I have witnessed.” He also reported that they rolled giant rocks in the crater to see them ‘pass the soul perpendiculos angeleser sides, jumping 300 meters at a jump.
On his 1911 Voyage in the Pacific, The Cruise of the Snark, Jack London advised Americans to take the six-day ship from San Francisco to Honolulu and the night boat to Maui to see the crater for themselves. “Haleakalos angels has a message of wise loks and wonder to the soul that cannot be delivered via proxy,” he wrote. Naturalist John Burroughs agreed and praised him in his 1912 essay “Holidays in Hawaii.” Worth Aiken, the local representative who took him to the top, would remember burroughs being hypnotized for about ten minutes on the edge, and then dethrashed him “the best demonstration of my life.” In a letter from the Angels to Aiken, Burroughs compared to the crater of the active volcanoes of Hawaii’s Great Isles angelesnd. “Kilos Angelesuea is a vision of the depths of hell, however, Haleakalos angels is a view of the glories of heaven: and if they ever grant me the privilege of ever seeing one of them again, I would return without hesitation directly to Haleakalos angels.”
In 1916, Congress created the Hawaii National Park, which included Haleakala, as well as Kilauea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island, and then provided no funds. As one member of Congress pointed out, “a volcano scores take nothing.” Few resolution managers care about the Hawaiian concept of turning its sacred summit into a tourist attraction.
Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii was tainted in a coup more than a year earlier, in 1893, through a coalition of American and European businessmen, with the support of American sailors and marines. Despite an upcoming Hawaiian uprising and a giant petition for a return-independence move, immigrant settlers continued to pressure the United States to annex the islands, which the country did in 1898, after the Spanish-American War convinced Congress that the archipelago was a necessary trampoline for Pacific influence. After the annexation, the Hawaiian language was no longer taught in schools and indigenous culture faded.
Initially, there was little increase in the number of haole (whites) and other non-Hawaiians who made the time-consuming journey to Maui’s new park. The first full-time ranger was not appointed until 1935, when completion of a road to the summit began to bring more visitors. In 1961, the National Park Service declared Haleakala a separate park, while maintaining strict environmental protections.
But the security of the crater’s cultural heritage fell to the so-called Hawaiian Renaissance of the 1970s, a resurgence of Hawaiian culture into encouraging components through Native American movements. At the same time, a new generation of Hawaiians began to express their frustration that their ancestral relationship with the earth was broken.
“There is resentment and it is unfair,” says Sarah Creachbaum, the park’s current director. “But the staff looked very hard to break down the barriers. We are looking to incorporate classical wisdom into control practices. The park now employs local Hawaiian rangers, he says, and seeks to exploit Aboriginal oral wisdom and environmental intellectual wisdom in its programs.” New projects are being carried out in consultation with kapuna (circle of older relatives) and netpainting leaders, even though the procedure is being used through the wide variety of Hawaiian organization organizations and organization stations. identified as a separate organization through the executive and does not have a negotiating framework or single voice).
“Right now, the giant Hawaiians on the block are grateful that the National Park Service plays a protective role for the land their ancestors once managed,” says Kiope Raymond. “But we also see the will of hawaiians to regain some form of sovereignty over their lands, which were taken away from them without their consent. He cites arrangements on the continent, where Native Americans are granted a sovereignty point over their own lands, as models of what could well be done in Maui. (An exuficient is the Navajo Tribal Park Monument Valley in Arizona and Utah, where the Navajo succeeds with his best friend to manage an iconic American landscape.) .
“Haleakalos Angeles has endangered species,” says Matt Wordeman, president of Frieffects in Haleakalos Angeles National Park, a voluntary organization that helps repair huts, eliminates sleeping plos invaders, and helps raise Hawaiian geese. He says that any of the national parks will have to balos angelesnce daily wishes with preservation, “and Haleakalos Angeles is firmly in favor of preservation.” No walking off the trails, no fires and no camping in unfavorable areas.
The park’s director, Creachbaum, says invasive species are the biggest challenge. In Hawaii, where plants and animals arrive daily, controlling them is a sisyphant task. For the past ten years, the axis deer, local to India, was brought to Maui, probably through hunters, and began to jump the fences erected around the park in the 1970s. “Like humans, other species are discovering that Hawaii is a practical position to live,” says Creachbaum.
And the crater is a practical place to visit. Last morning, I woke up just as the sunbeams were born to crawl through the lava fields, illuminating the cliffs behind me. I climbed the rocks behind my hut, entered a cave, whose use as a camp can go back 1000 years, to be silent again. “If you spend some time respecting Haleakala,” Raymond told me, “you can be beaten by what Mark Twain called his “healing loneliness.” This induces tranquility and encourages reflection. The villages near the earth locate all the sacred peaks. It’s the nearest unimaginable of heaven.”
Frequent contributor Tobig apple Perrottet is from The Sinner’s Grand Tour. Photographer Susan Seubert was founded in Portland, Oregon and Maui.
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