Saturday, July 2, 2011

Valley of 10,000 Smokes at Katmai






In 1912, one of the largest ever recorded volcanoes occurred. The ash dust caused darkness for surrounding areas for 3 days. Miraculously, no one died. The dust is 700 feet high in areas and spread for miles and miles. We hiked down about 800 feet one and half miles to the falls. The water was powerful. The wall looked like sand, but was volcanic dust. We also saw a confluence of two rivers. The upper trail was gravel with the lower part only being about a foot wide and muddy. Fun and not to hard of a hike. It's about the journey, not the destination.

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