Post #336071 by VanTiki on Tue, Oct 2, 2007 2:27 PM

When I was a kid we used to hike diamond head all the time - one of my favorite DH hike memories is when we dropped mom off at the Cinerama (which had some great tikis in front of it - it is now a checker auto store) so she could stand in line for Empire Strikes Back. My Dad, brother, some friends and I all drove up to Diamond head and had plenty of time to do the hike before the movie started. Back then the hike was very "unimproved" and the only way to get to the summit bunker was by making your way thru all the lower bunkers then climbing a rusty ladder up a cement chimney to the top. You can still see the chimney with the latter at the top - but it is now bared off and you can't climb down it. It was always scary for me when I was a kid in those bunkers - they were FILLED with weird graffiti (exept for one level that had a memorial in it an a pained placard asking that no graffiti be placed on the walls of that level out of respect). I have some old photos I took of the hike when I was 9 or 10 - I gotta dig them up!