Hi everyone. This is a write-up primarily about the first backpack/service trip made by Ho`opono youth in 2006. Since then am glad to report there have been other agency youth outings to the big island and elsewhere, all of which have proven to be beneficial for those involved. It is thanks to the support and generosity of local consumer groups, National Federation of the Blind Hawaii and Hawaii Association of the Blind, the non-profit Friends of Ho`opono, as well as the agency itself that these trips were able to take place. Perhaps one day some of those stories will get blogged too! A w alk in the Park Imagine standing at the start of Maui’s Keoneheehee trail that twists and turns for several miles around and about stupendous multi-colored giant cinder cones as it winds down from its’ 10,023 elevation level to the quietest place on earth, the crater floor of the Haleakala National Park summit area. Next, imagine that you are one of a group of 5 blind youth and 3 b...