Jim Taken from the cultural overview handbook required for all that work on Haleakala "Known in ancient times as Ala Hea Ka La (path to call the sun), the Hawaiian name Haleakala (House of the Sun), is now synonymous with the entire shield of the East Maui volcano. Early Hawaiians, however, applied the name only to the summit area, the site where the demigod Maui snared the sun and forced it to slow its journey across the sky." In the Hawaiian way of thinking, "Haleakala is our ancestor, you never went up to the top without some specific purpose. The remnants of Pele exist in her forms on the summit of Haleakala, so you would never move or take anything away from the summit because that is an encroachment on the realm of Pele, as the physical creator of these islands." This AM 43ยบ 7% humidity winds 32mph http://banana.ifa.hawaii.edu/Weather/current.html Aloha and a hui ho Rob