The crew has established and marked more than 200 miles of roads along frozen rivers, during warm weather and intermittent snow storms.
The Kuskokwim Ice Road crew confirmed Friday that travel was safe from the tundra villages of Kasigluk and Nunapitchuk down the Johnson River, and up the Kuskokwim River all the way to Kalskag. However, the crew still urged travelers to prepare for the worst. Safe passage has also been confirmed from Kalskag farther upriver to Aniak.
“These crazy little storms we’ve been having, they just blow through for a couple hours and mess up everything, and then it gets good again,” Leary said. The 10-person crew was ultimately able to split up and ensure safe passage from the tundra villages to Kalskag. “It’s Friday, there’s kids and basketball teams moving all over the river. The plow truck just met two Suburbans full of school kids headed for a ballgame in Napakiak,” Leary said. “That’s why we work so hard to get everything open, even though it’s a losing battle sometimes.”
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