Hiking Through An Alaska Storm

“The woods seemed to be the safest place for hiking, so we chose a six-mile trail that starts at Monashka Bay, at a beach still white with the ash of the 1912 Katmai eruption. The Termination Point trail is green year-round. It winds through hills blanketed in spongy moss and thins where it travels along the edge of steep cliffs. We were protected from the wind, but we walked under roaring treetops rubbing against each other in the storm.” Sara Loewen writes about hiking in mid-winter near Kodiak, Alaska, in the Anchorage Daily News.

Terrain Map of Monashka Bay