Kalalau

Kalalau Valley, but the weather must be very fine.

Koolau the Leper 2010

Yet this was Kiloliana, the most daring climber of them all, the man who knew every goat-trail and who had led Koolau and his wretched followers into the recesses of Kalalau.

Koolau the Leper 2010

The far head of Kalalau Valley had been well chosen as a refuge.

Koolau the Leper 2010

Take a quick vacation -- enjoy this photo gallery taken on the Kalalau Trail in Kauai (yes, there's a high-res version of that armored spider).

Rip current death toll; spiked spider 2010

And a cool - headed mountaineer might climb from the beach to the head of Kalalau

Koolau the Leper 2010

If he paid a third of a million for the drug monopoly, the investment was nevertheless a good one, for the dividends bought him the Kalalau Plantation, which, in turn, paid him thirty per cent for seventeen years and was ultimately sold by him for a million and a half.

Chun Ah Chun 2010

Kalalau Valley was left to him for his own, though head-hunters ventured after him from time to time and to their own undoing.

Koolau the Leper 2010

He knew the man, a deputy sheriff, for it was by him that he had been harried out of Niihau, across Kauai, to Kalalau Valley, and out of the valley to the gorge.

Koolau the Leper 2010

Because the Sierra Club rates the difficulty at 9 out of 10 (and, of course, it's stunning, so why rush?), people usually stay overnight at Kalalau.

Katherine Nichols: Adventure and Luxury on Kauai's Na Pali Coast Katherine Nichols 2010

He wears a crown of hibiscus and rules "a flower-throttled gorge, with beetling cliffs and crags," in the Kalalau Valley on the island of Kaui.

“Day had broken cold and gray, exceedingly cold and gray, . . . .” 2008