Moose Breaking Ice

It is winter in Alaska! Maybe not by the calendar, but certainly by the snow on the ground and the ice on the water.
Jeff Reed and I decided to make one last mining trip for the season. Snow is falling at low elevations now, but only a few inches have accumulated on the ground. We decided to take a gamble and see if we could drive back into our claims at Mills Creek. There was a chance, however, that we would find too much snow on the road to get back in. The only way to know was to drive down and find out. We decided to take both our trucks, just in case one of us got stuck. We headed out early under cloudy skis. Enroute through Portage we passed a cow moose and her calf breaking ice in a pond next to the highway.
 

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