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The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain

24 points elsewhen 1 day ago 17 comments

LoganDark 1 hour ago | parent

It's honestly very difficult for me to see the depth or scale in any of these photos. I can't really tell where the crack is supposed to be or how it reaches a 66-foot depth at any point.

dylan604 4 minutes ago | parent

It sounds similar to the Grand Canyon. Intellectually, we know it is big and deep and wide. Being there and seeing it for the first time is more of an emotional understanding of how big and deep and wide it is as if you didn't already know it intellectually. As they say, it never fails to impress. The sheer size is impossible to recreate emotionally. Maybe if the put a human for scale it might help.

dockd 57 minutes ago | parent

Oregon has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_in_the_Ground and it's much easier to get to.

somat 40 minutes ago | parent

If we are doing a survey on great cracks, I vote the one in Utah as the most unsettling.

https://www.outono.net/elentir/2025/07/10/the-huge-crevasse-...

My understanding it was a layer of asphalt that got turned sideways(vertical) and as such that was how it was mined. Leaving a very eerie hole.

mackwell 55 minutes ago | parent

Do the makers of sites like this know how terrible it is to try to actually read an article on them? Just tried on iOS. As you scroll, the ads load and change and throw you to a different part of the page and you lose your place repeatedly.

After about 4 times, I bailed.

stevenwoo 48 minutes ago | parent

The Hearst papers uses some pretty terrible ad networks and it’s done so for years so one would have to assume it’s on purpose, like torrent tracker website ads. I only put up with it cause it’s free for now.

dylan604 6 minutes ago | parent

Ironically, it's free precisely because of all of the ads and data harvesting

dunham 31 minutes ago | parent

On most news sites, the ads are annoying and the sheer weight of the third party tracking and ad javascript make them unusable.

But I've found that a lot of news sites are bearable with javascript disabled. On chrome desktop, you can do that per site via the site settings in the location bar. On iOS, I'm using Quiche browser. It's subscription, but it can disable javascript per site and has auto dark mode functionality.

LoganDark 7 minutes ago | parent

I wouldn't necessarily mind a paid browser if there were a lifetime option. Apparently you weren't kidding about subscription.

nonfamous 53 minutes ago | parent

Interesting story, but if you go there it’s going to be hard to follow up on yourself:

>>> When I contacted AllTrails with questions about the route, the company removed it from the app.

mlmonkey 34 minutes ago | parent

GMaps link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/HUA5m4KPJmbeqJEF6

tobadzistsini 32 minutes ago | parent

A great site for a CoC scenario per the article.

mannyv 30 minutes ago | parent

The author needs to pack a small drone next time they head out. They're light, easy to use, and take pretty OK pictures.

It's funny how these big geo features are all hidden. I mean, it's a big crack in the Earth. Maybe this is where the lizard people come from, so anyone that talks about "the crack" disappears?

brudgers 24 minutes ago | parent

It’s a National Park, the use of drones is substantially restricted.

ajb92 20 minutes ago | parent

It was nice knowing you, mannyv.

cogogo 16 minutes ago | parent

It is not permitted to fly drones on National Park land without permission - which to my knowledge they rarely give.