Next Detailed Elim Weather Koyuk is a village with a view.
Frame houses dot the hillside overlooking the bay.
Villagers can venture back up into the hills for caribou and moose, and black and grizzly bear, but still have the ocean for more hunting and fishing. Mushers feel that they are back on solid ground when they arrive in Koyuk. Of course it's an illusion, because the wind still blows with the same tenacity, but the feeling is one of less vulnerability. Hills, the occasional black spruce, and the trail on land relax the musher. The trail leaves Koyuk and goes back on the ice, but it follows the shore.