Articles by Jade Eckardt

There’s an alluring scent unique to the Windward Sides of all the Hawaiian Islands and Halawa Valley, on Molokai’s east side, is rich with it. The scent—a marriage of fragrant flowers, humid air and damp jungle—permeates just about everything in the valley. I breathe deep as we begin ascending the hiking trail to 250-foot Moaula Falls,