Every winter, an ice road appears across Big Lake in Mat-Su courtesy of local volunteers:
Cathy Mayfield plows a section of an ice road on Big Lake Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. Mayfield and her husband Dan Mayfield maintain a section of a seasonal ice road on the lake.
“In winter, we depend on the ice roads. Everybody out here, for the most part, has ... power. Other than that, we are responsible for our own infrastructure — wells, septics,” Haggard said. “So it’s not much of a stretch for us to provide our own road system as well. It’s all just part of the deal.” The main road across Big Lake, known as Ice 5, was finished up just last week by Dan and Cathy Mayfield, longtime residents and trails advocates. Dan Mayfield, a former Mat-Su assembly member, said the couple waits for 12 inches of ice before putting in the road.
Nobody has a Zamboni. Instead, locals put their own plow trucks on the ice. Keeping the road snow-free allows the ice to thicken through the season.“Sometimes it freezes early. Sometimes it freezes late,” Mayfield said. “This year, what we had was the east end of the lake froze and the west end of the lake hadn’t frozen yet. Then we got a dump of snow.”
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