Alaskan Highways in the winter

Check this river out!! We are standing in the middle of the Yetna River. This is the highway that a lot of Alaskans use during the winter to get their supplies to their cabins. The river freezes hard enough for snow machines and other vehicles to use it by mid Nov. and is about 14" thick. It stays frozen until about May. There are areas of open water called "open leads" that we have to be careful of. On our trip going up, it was dark and foggy, and we came upon an open lead, going about 45 mph, and was about 45 foot long. Tom had told me, if you ever see open water, to give my machine all the gas it could handle and DON'T STOP until we are sure we were out of it. He had made it through the open lead and had stopped to make sure I made it and I was right on his bumper! I about ran over him. :o)
The Denali Mt. was absolutely gorgeous coming home. It's the tallest Mt. in North American and is over 21,000 ft. high. Many mountain climbers try to climb it during the summer months. Very few have made it all the way. Some have even lost their life at doing what they enjoy.