11 Mistakes to avoid when hiking the Kalalau Trail

René Rosendahl
10 min readApr 30, 2023

Completing the Kalalau Trail is no easy feat. (In case you’re not familiar, this world-famous trail off of the Napali coast of Kauai is considered one of the world's most beautiful but also most dangerous hiking trails.)

So you want to be prepared, bring the right gear, and make good decisions. And yet, more often than not, people make mistakes that get them into varying degrees of trouble.

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René Rosendahl

Thinker, writer, product guy, developer, and exercise fanatic.