It's difficult to see, but there's a large and abrupt hole in the ground here, about 8 feet across and of unknown depth. There's no safe place to get near enough to look very far over the edge because of the thick sphagnum on the forest floor that drapes over the sides of the hole. Early naturalists wrote about Kohala's dangerous bottomless pits, and seeing how they're hidden by the moss and understory makes it easier to understand how dangerous they can be. If you fell in this hole and survived you probably couldn't escape, and there's nobody for miles to hear you scream.