Hawaii wheeling

[Arizona_Jeep]

I am thinking about buying a home in Hawaii. I wanted to know if anyone knows of good wheeling there? I don't want to go to a non-wheeling state.

[Propane]

I know there are. I've sent several kits to Hawaii. I think Maui Offroad comes to mind.

[Arizona_Jeep]

Thanks. I am looking at the big Island, Hawaii, so is MAui offroad in Maui, or Hawaii?

[brenn18c]

I am from Hawaii (Oahu), born and raised, and there are soon to be no places to wheel at all. If you want to move to Hawaii, you will enjoy:

1. The weather
2. The food
3. The outdoors

That is all. Do not let people lie to you, there are hardly any places to wheel on any island in Hawaii, and all there is is mud. We have vehicle reconstruction laws in Hawaii as well as safety checks.


If you want to know more about the sad situation of off-road in Hawaii, I point you to www.4x4boyz.com

[Arizona_Jeep]

Ooh, that sucks. MArk Hawaii of the list now.

[PYRO]

Originally Posted by brenn18c

I am from Hawaii (Oahu), born and raised, and there are soon to be no places to wheel at all. If you want to move to Hawaii, you will enjoy:

1. The weather
2. The food
3. The outdoors

That is all. Do not let people lie to you, there are hardly any places to wheel on any island in Hawaii, and all there is is mud. We have vehicle reconstruction laws in Hawaii as well as safety checks.


If you want to know more about the sad situation of off-road in Hawaii, I point you to www.4x4boyz.com

I have lived on the Big Island for about 40 years, run a 4x4 fab shop and we wheel on about 130 different trails. Oahu sucks for wheeling, but the Big Island and Kauai have tons of places to go. On this island there is every type of terrain you can think of, sand, mud, snow, and some of the best rock crawling in the world.
I have no idea why this guy is saying what he is saying but it is very far from the truth.

Here are some pic of the Big Island:



Ya, only mud over here


This is one of about 20 trails over on Kauai(it's a small island) called Powerline Trail:



If you do come over, let us know and we'll go wheel, you won't be disappointed, it's a great place.
http://rockcrawlinghawaii.yuku.com/

[Arizona_Jeep]

Damn, that puts it back on the list. Nice buggy, 42's? What kind of tire size is common for wheeling aorund there?

[PYRO]

Thanks, Yes, those are 42's, most of the guys are running 35's to 37's. A few have 40's to 44's but they are mostly big mud trucks.

[brenn18c]

Hey, I know there are a couple of you, but seeing that he has Arizona in his name, he is going to be sad. How does it feel to be one of only a handful of rock buggies that I can probably count on two hands?

I was wrong about the big island, I knew that the lava fields would probably be a good spot, I hope you dont go through too many tires.

hey Op, why dont you tell us more about why you want to move to Hawaii, I mean you kind of only gave us a small amount of criteria. Each island is different and one may suit you more than the other.

[Arizona_Jeep]

The biggest reason is for the beauty, I am thinking about trying to keep my home here in Utah, and buy a smaller home in Hawaii.

[brenn18c]

Thats a good reason. With that in mind, avoid Oahu. Kauai and Hawaii (The big island) are beautiful but infrastructure is low. Maui is a good mix of both. my 2 cents.

[PYRO]

But the only place to wheel on Maui is private land,(or the race track during an event) and very little of that.
The Big Island is not only the flows, even though it is frick'n awesome rock crawling. There are trails all over the mountains, cinder cones and cinder fields, beach trails with killer diving and fishing, There are places to wheel all over the place. I have shipped my rig to and wheeled on every island in Hawaii(other then Lanai), even on Oahu(I won the Hawaii Top Truck Challange two years in a row, built the first rockbuggy in Hawaii) and have also wheel in most of the western US including Arizona, The Big Island is right up there, as good or better,,,,,,,, and in the summer, I don't have keep dumping ice in the floor to keep from getting a frick'n heat stroke.

[Arizona_Jeep]

Well I booked a trip to head out in April. It is to the big island. We are leaving 9:00am April 12th from Salt Lake.

[thebeeter]

the wife and i hiked the powerline trail about 3 years ago during a wet time. it makes the tank trap look easy, huge ruts and way deep mud. i was wondering if there were trucks that could survive that trail when wet.
any more pics. of it?

[kauaiboy89]

Originally Posted by thebeeter

the wife and i hiked the powerline trail about 3 years ago during a wet time. it makes the tank trap look easy, huge ruts and way deep mud. i was wondering if there were trucks that could survive that trail when wet.
any more pics. of it?

love that trail, its pretty much in my back yard!

[praetorian]

More pics!

[89lc]

Originally Posted by praetorian

More pics!

here are some pics from when I hiked it.





Im 6'1"





There were some guys wheeling when we were hiking, they used to have some pics from their trip on 4x4boyz but the site got hacked. Anyway, I hope to go there some day and wheel that trail. Just need some bigger meats and a front locker with longs in it.

[Dirty Harry]

Man Pyro I lived on the Big Island for nine months and you never showed me the goods! All I saw were Mana Road and the green sand beach. I didn't think that there was much in the way of rockcrawling when I was on the Big Island, certainly nothing like what there is in the Southwest. If it is there I sure would have liked to have seen it...