My guts exploding all over that land was not what I wanted to do at all,” one hiker said after she caught norovirus while camping on the island of Kauai in Hawaii and needed to be helicoptered to the

The Kalalau Trail is closed until at least Thursday because of a norovirus outbreak, according to state officials. At least 50 people fell ill.

The Hawaiian island of Kauai may not have any spewing lava, but hikers along the magnificent Napali coast have brought their own volcanic action recently, violently hollowing their innards amid the gushing waterfalls and deeply carved valleys.

If hiking one of Hawaii’s most beautiful trails is on your bucket list, it will have to wait a little bit longer. A popular 11-mile hiking trail, the Kalalau Trail, has been temporarily closed after a growing number of hikers have been infected with a highly contagious strand of norovirus.