My Life In The Lum Hawaiiana Room

In an effort to find out all the history I possibly can on the trail I will be cleaning up, I have found myself sitting for multiple hours, and throughout all of our in class work days in the Lum Hawaiianna Room in Cooke Library. It really is an amazing source and the people that work in there (mainly the one specialist and sometimes student workers) have been extremely helpful. That is not to say however, by any means, that finding information on the Waimano/Manana areas has been easy. I had no idea how tedious the process of finding a seemingly simple legend could be. First the book for authentic place names, then the index book of place names, then the index book of the place names legends, then the books that the previous index book referred you to, and then if you're lucky, they will have the book in stock, and if you're even luckier, that book will have the information your looking for. It's an extremely good feeling after an hour of looking through shelves of books, (most of which were printed in the 70's) and mountains of indexes, to find what your looking for. An immense quality sense of accomplishment from an immense quality of time searching.

Screw = Sierra Club Response

Since I am no expert in trail maintenance, I tried to call (and relied on a response from) one of the members of the Sierra Club that was leading a hike on the same trail that I will be cleaning up, in order to get some feedback on things that the trial needs, ie. trash pickup, trail markers etc. However now I am stuck, and as Robert Prisig would point out, am living quality. The process of my own thinking, my own judgement and creative ideas on what I think the trail needs, based off of almost no prerequisite knowledge or feedback, is quality in itself. Another thing quality about my un-returned phone calls, is the time my mind has been spending thinking outside of the box, quality time for it to develop as it delves into the depths of environmental conservation.