Jackie who started off very
enthusiastically. 
The trail was
muddier than I had remembered and far muddier than the family would have liked,
which gave it a mixed bag in the reviews afterwards.
One 
short section
of the trail was washed out by rains making for what almost
(but no quite) amounted to a class 3 section that the others rather enjoyed.
Jackie was pretty tired ("How much further now?") by the time we got to
the lower north summit, so Mom and her stopped at the
picnic shelter while son Ryan and I 
continued
the short distance to the highpoint. We stopped briefly
at 
the chin to take in the views from the narrow perch before
heading up to
the less-scenic 
highest point where the 
USGS benchmark
is located. We found the
geocache/register tucked away in a different location from my last visit, and
Ryan dutifully 
signed us into its ledger.
On the way down we explored 
the caves
just under the chin before rejoining the rest of the family back at the picnic
benches. The descent was pretty uneventful, but the mud on our shoes would
remain for the rest of our stay on Kauai and it wasn't until we got home more
than a week later that I cleaned the famous red dirt off the litter of boots.