Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

PG: Remember telling me that
RG: I remember telling you, but not the passing, the nice spot was at Keanakolu, the
afternoon before we started these cattle down. We’d bring them into the big waterhole
and they would go in and swim in there and drink water and what not.
PG: And as a cattleman, he said, it was the most beautiful, beautiful site. Wasn’t that what
you were telling me
RG: Yes.
KM: The men, the cowboys, had some real skill and talent in keeping these two separate
herds separate and passing. This was all that dirt trail basically
RG: Yes.
Trails around Mauna Kea:
KM: Did Parker Ranch put that trail in, do you know or was it older
RG: As far as I know, it was there way before that.
KM: Way before
PG: Bill Bryan told me way back in early ‘50s [thinking], anyway in the ‘50’s, that it was
German’s who built the log cabin up there (Waipunalei).
KM: Haneberg
PG: He said that he thinks that, they’re the one’s who put that cobblestone road from the log
cabin area.
KM: Yes.
PG: And you can see parts of it.
KM: That comes back towards Pua‘äkala
PG: Towards Waimea.
KM: Okay, from Keanakolu cabin Is that right, you’re talking about Keanakolu cabin
PG: Rally
RG: Yes. You’re talking about the stone
KM: Yes, filled
RG: Yes, above Keanakolu.
PG: The paving, the road paved with paving stones.
RG: Yes, above Keanakolu.
PG: Yes, comes down on the curve.
RG: Going to the Doctor’s Pit.
KM: That’s right, so it is going back towards the Doctor’s Pit (Kaluakauka)
RG: Yes.
KM: Yes, I know which one you’re talking about as you said, you can still see some evidence
of that stone paving there
PG: But then, where is it Waipunalei, where the Filipino used to stand up on his tippy toes to
shout up into the telephone, you told me
RG: Yes.
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