Adventurers Club Honolulu April 19, 2023

 

 ADVENTURERS CLUB OF HONOLULU

April 19, 2023   Wednesday

Waikiki Yacht Club

Aloha Adventurers!

   We have another fascinating program lined up this month! The "Adventure" part of it is the stairs themselves! I have personally never climbed those stairs so I will be very interested in seeing and hearing about them. Hopefully you feel the same and will join us!

    This is sure to be a popular program! Our speaker is Sean Pager, the son of ACH member David Pager, and an expert on the history of the Stairs.

   We will again enjoy the ambience of the beautiful Waikiki Yacht Club. It is ideally suited to our club and meetings, and the food is tasty too.

     Plan now to attend the meeting and email your RSVP early to me at angell@hawaii.edu.

     And remember -- we are always looking for new members to share our enjoyment of these programs and one another's fellowship! Contact our

membership chair, Terrilea Burnett, if you know someone who would be interested in joining. Her email is terrileaburnett@outlook.com.

See you on the 19th!

  Aloha,

    Lowell Angell

ACH Co-President with Carolyn Gire

           "THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE HA‘IKŪ STAIRS"

               By guest: Sean Pager (son of member, David Pager)

      The Haʻikū Stairs are an architectural and engineering wonder that doubles as a world-class hike. They are indelibly linked to two different communications breakthroughs whose cutting-edge technologies had significant world-historical implications in the mid-20th century. Since then, the “Stairway to Heaven” has become an iconic fixture of Windward O’ahu. Up to 20,000 people per year climbed them in the 1980s, and the stairs’ renown continues to reverberate widely on

social media today. 

     Few people know the story, however, of how they came to be built: The Stairs were part of a top-secret Naval radio station. Heroic efforts and intrepid engineering underlay their construction, paving the way for a revolutionary transmitter whose high-altitude cables spanned the amphitheater-

shaped walls of Haʻikū Valley.  Radio signals sent from Haʻikū could reach across the Pacific Ocean (an unprecedented distance) and played a significant role in winning the War of the Pacific. After the war, the Stairs were used as part of an equally groundbreaking Omega transmitter, one of the eight stations worldwide whose global navigation beacons provided an early precursor to satellite-based

GPS.

    This talk will recount the untold story of the Haʻikū Stairs. It will also discuss the Stairs’ more recent incarnation as a controversial hiking trail and explore their possible future.

Waikiki Yacht Club   1599 Ala Moana Blvd

6:00 PM - no host cocktails  (credit cards accepted)

6:30 PM - Dinner

7:15 PM - Program  (approximately)

~ Menu ~  (includes caesar salad with house-made dressing, tiramisu, coffee/tea, iced tea or soda)

    1)  Pasta bar: linguine or rotini  / Sauce bar: house-made pesto, creamy alfredo or marinara & choice of Italian sausage w/onions & peppers $45, or

   2)  Eggplant parmesan (vegetarian) = $45

Prices for guest entrées = $55

RSVPs due by 4/12/23  To Lowell Angell, (via email) angell@hawaii.edu (live link)

Late cancellations and no shows will be billed

(Next meeting:   May 18th, 2023  Thursday, at Natsunoya Tea House    6PM)