Hiking Team: Dave Miller, Rosie Miller
Date: March 9, 2025
After hiking the Crater Rim Trail at 3,980 feet for several miles, we connected with the one-mile Sulphur Banks Trail just north of the Kilauea Caldera. After passing many steam vents we entered an area of hot, colored rocks and boiling sulfur pits which reminded us of the Yellowstone Park boiling mud pots and sulfur pits. The hydrogen sulfide gas smelled like sulfur and rotten eggs. Rosie said that it also smelled like my dirty, sweaty hiking socks. I took that as a compliment. A half mile down the trail it abruptly changed back to jungle and greenery again.
