It very suddenly tipped upriver, a direction in which it had been slightly leaning for a couple days, and stayed put. Sometime between 10pm Saturday and 7am Sunday, the anchor ice on the townside came up. This is ice that is filled with river mud. It usually indicates that the ice is getting closer to moving out. There continues to be very little water flow and the river is low.
Ice continues to jam up under that bridge.
The clock, with the depot visible through the window, shortly after a train went by and tripod leaned upriver. The time on the clock is one earlier because official Nenana Ice Classic time is Alaska Standard Time. The view from inside the watchtower. Photos by Julie Coghill Under the highway bridge the ice is just now starting to rot. If it rots at the same rate as the ice near the tripod and if the ice doesn't go out until that ice opens up more, it could still be several days before breakup.