Most trails in Alaska come with a reputation attached. This one arrives without any introduction at all.
The bluff opens up gradually, the tree line pulling back just enough to reveal what the coastline is actually doing out here. Water stretches in every direction with nothing built on it and nothing interrupting it.
Footprints in the mud are the only evidence that anyone has passed through recently. Alaska has a way of making humans feel appropriately small, but this particular walk does it more quietly than most…