We Tried It: Indoor Rock Climbing at HiClimb in Kaka‘ako
This O‘ahu gym offer more than just a rock-climbing wall.
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Born and raised on O‘ahu, Catherine Toth Fox worked as a newspaper reporter in Hawai‘i for more than 10 years and has freelanced—in between teaching journalism, hitting the surf and eating everything in sight—for national and local print and online publications since 1997. She earned her master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1999, with a focus on magazine writing and publishing. And she received her bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, graduating with distinction in 1996. She was HONOLULU Magazine’s food and dining editor from 2015 to 2019, editor of HAWAIʻI Magazine from 2019 to 2022, and now serves as editor of HONOLULU Family.
This O‘ahu gym offer more than just a rock-climbing wall.
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