Frozen Yukon River Strands Several At Fish Camp

Here’s more from the Anchorage Daily News:

The group was headed back to Pilot Station from Emmonak and stopped at the fish camp Thursday night, troopers spokesman Austin McDaniel said. The camp is on the Yukon River about 20 miles east of Emmonak in Southwest Alaska. The group planned to take off Friday but the river froze over and they were unable to leave because of the ice conditions, McDaniel said.

“The ice is just too thick for us to run some kind of boat on the ice, however, the ice is too thin to be able to support a snowmachine or any kind of vehicle on the ice,” McDaniel said. “And there’s no overland routes to get to this area.”

The group had shelter, heat and supplies and was communicating with troopers using an InReach device, troopers wrote in an online alert. Food and medicine were dropped at the camp Sunday with assistance from Grant Air, troopers said.