Knik River Offroad Rescue

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There about 1985 coming out from a back country camping trip at the Knik Glacier we found this fiasco going on at Jim Creek due to the thin ice during "Break Up" on a warm Sunday afternoon. The video rescue ends with a surprise to some. All the ice seen is called "overflow" from the pressure of water overflowing onto the existing ice. This overflow can often be 100's of yards in all directions. Due to the build up over 6 plus months, the ice expansions will build up higher and higher, and widen more and more over the months due to the temperature variations. Some place you see will have five feet of ice solid enough to drive over, other places of the ice pack will show flowing water that might only be 4 inches deep or five feet deep as you see here. You don't know where the main channels have moved to flowing out to the Knik River.

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