Mauna Kea drive & Observatory tour 

just the video I was looking for. Thank you! I rented a 4 X 4 from Thrifty but did not know that I couldn't drive up to the summit with it. Thought it must be a really tough drive till I saw your awesome video of the somewhat easy drive and the great education you provide on the place. Almost booked a tour, but at close to $800 for 3 people I decided to do some digging and found out some people on TURO car rental site explicitly state that you can drive their 4WD vehicles up to the summit. I rented a 2022 Jeep Gladiator for the day for $220 (got the insurance for $35) so you could get it for under $200 if you pass on the insurance. Your video convinced me, and my wife, that we could drive up there ourselves. My 16 yo daughter is psyched! Now just have to layer up and take some blankets. Thanks again!

04:05:28 Lluvia de meteoritos ¡Espectacular!

I will be there in 3 weeks for work! Wicked excited

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing.

Jason, that's a great video and tour! Thanks for taking the time to share and explain! Looking forward to meeting you soon! Mahalo, Greg

Absolutely stunning! Thank you so much 👏👏👏

Thank you for taking us along!

That was amazing!!Thank you for sharing!

Dude, thanks for taking the time to make this video :)

Thank you so much for visiting this site and describe anything there

Jason thank you for sharing 🙏 very cool to see 🤟

Dude, awesome video. Thanks for taking the time.

Thank you so much for this fantastic video. I especially enjoyed the tour of the observatory.

I watch the Subaru webcam every night, so this is perfect for me to see! Thank you 4 the tour!!

Thanks so much for the awesome video..the tour of the observatory was amazing..love science..😁🤗👍🏻🇨🇦

Jason - wow! 😲 That was a seriously awesome video tour! Very informative and super cool. Gonna have to share this, big time. 🤙

Thanks for posting this video.

Great video. Awesome view from up there 👍👌

Thank you for this video. I'm going to ITO next week, and this is great. I will go up to Mauna Kean for usre!

Thanks for the tour. Build me one of those.

Awesome video tour, Thank you Brother!!

Nice one! 🤙🏽

This is fantastic. Thank you so much. I'm an Australian in Cambodia on my own and have been watching the Subaru live feed for a few days. I told my daughter this is number 1 on my bucket list to go there one-day then I realised you can't go inside. You don't know what this means to me.

Wow thanks for posting. Will be visiting in Sept 2021 and this is on my to-do list. It must be fascinating to work there ❤.

Great tour of the summit

Very good job, I really like how you show your complete drive with car , thank man

Was there in march love star watching

Thanks for this great video and the special tour on top! We visit in near future in April 2024 we hope everything is also fine. Now I’m looking to find a 4d car to rent for the time we spend on big island. Have a good time

great video

Dude nice tour

Amazing video, watching from kenya

Thank you for this tour! I was there many years ago and it still remains one of my favorite places in the world.

WOW! what a tour. That is an awesome video. Hoping to take my teenagers to Mauna Kea this summer. I been doing a bit of research on the Mauna Kea tours. We wanted to also see the sunset. They are all around $250 per person - pretty pricey and you don’t get a tour of the Observatory, like the tour you just shared. Thank you.

This is a super cool video!!!! Thank you so much for sharing. What is your job there?

Great video, thank you. What a privileged tour you gave us. Question; you pointed out “UKIRT” that you work at. Is that the United Kingdom Infra-Red Telescope?

Love the FJ. I'm on Oahu so I can't have as much fun with mine. Lift on one tons. We have been on Hilo side for 5 days now and jeeps and 4wd were not avaliable to explore farther than the center.

Would probably not be a good idea for me to go up the mountain as I am a heart patient beautiful video

Thanks so much for posting this video. My wife and I are planning a visit. Thanks for a great eye opening experience. It's been on my bucket list to come up and see the observatory.

That’s an interesting hair do my man.

Thanks for the video what time of the day were you at the top?

Thats DOPE! Im going to come up there once my wife gets out here. I moved out here to work on our property before she gets here (similar situation from your first Hawaii move video). We love anything space related, especially the observatories on Mauna Kea. Im working at Kona Community Hospital during the week but will be out there on the weekends in about 2 months when she finally gets here. Thanks for sharing!!!

Jason, enjoyed the video. Would you suggest going to Mauna Kea from Hilo or Kona? Can it be done it 7 hours? We are coming in on an NCL cruise.

Many thanks Jason for an awesome 'behind the scenes' tour. Remarkable scenery. Hope to make the trip soon. Please keep up the great work. Look forward to more insights on the amazing Big Island.

i liked the video before i started watching, heading to kona tomorrow from boston!

Thanks for the tour of the JCMT. Many years ago, I worked for the University of Cambridge and was part of a group who built two receivers for the JCMT. I was very fortunate to travel to the JCMT twice to install the receivers. I have many good memories of my times in Hawaii.

You work there? Sick! What time of year do you get snow up there?

Wow! I always imagined the road being one road continuous uphill road. So the antenna is the actual telescope? Is the terminology in astronomy different?

sweet video! is it harder to breath that high up?

We are doing a space science unit in our homeschool (3rd grader, kindergartener, and preschooler) and my kids LOVED this video. Thank you so much!

Excellent video 📹if the new telescope 🔭gets build why not build a radio like tower andbplace it as high as possible why won't they put it at the highest part.

What did u do with all the foliage that you cleaned off of your property? Thx

Hey @Jason just to let you know that CFH stands for Canada France Hawaii, not California France Hawaii ... ;) Aloha

Where to reserve the 4wd car to drive upto maun kea? When reaching out to rental cars they been saying it's not permitted to drive to summit. Is it true?

This is really amazing. Thank you for sharing this. I bet it would be a great environment to work. I would move back to Hilo if I knew i could work up there 👍🏾 -Bear

I was hoping you would show us what I looked like at sunset, do they not allow you to be up there after a certain time?

Hi Jason! Going up today! Do i use 4h or 4L when going up?? Or it doesnt matter aslong as i used 4 wheel? Thank you in advance!🤙

What’s your job description at the observatory? Thanks

Ok now this is the last thing I wish that hawaii was bigger like at least as big as arizona

I wish that the mountains on the big island were like really lush and green all the mountains on the other islands are lush and green I also wish big island had lots of mountains like the other islands the big island is basically all flat and there is only like 6 main mountains on there the only mountain that is really lush and green is kohala

The other mountains are like dry and no green and just like desert

Have you been to the highest points in any other states?

Those views are incredible showing the size of the road, the observatories, and the cloud cover. I wonder how they clean the mirrors

Can the public see live footage of what the telescope is viewing during the tour or is the CGI on the internet all we get?

How does one become a technician for these observatories?

Thanks for this vid! Planning to go up here next month, how late are we allowed to stay up there by the observatories? Are star gazing allowed up there?

Or maybe as big as Oregon

Would a 2021 AWD Subaru forester be allowed to drive up there?

Where do employees get their training for this massive operation?

Your on top of a mountain with a mask on ? Covid at 13000 ft ?

is it hard to breathe up there

Only the big island as big as arizona because this is weird but I only like the big island but I hate all the other islands I don't know why I just do

It CFHT... not cfa.. CFHT for Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope

And there is one more thing I wish that the volcanos were not active and green lake was not destroyed ( I don't know if that's how you spell it) and that hilo was not so dangerous

The Earth is flat. Nice video Bro ✌🏽☮️💖🌻🐝☀️🌊✌🏽