Heavy snowfall has made maintaining the lower Kuskokwim Ice Road in Alaska a challenge this year, resulting in a shorter road than usual. The road is now only usable on the Kuskokwim River from Napakiak upriver to Kwethluk, and it won't stretch any farther upriver this season. The crew maintaining the road has been working harder than ever, but overflow has flooded the route, preventing maintenance past Kwethluk. The crew has been working back-to-back 14-hour days, sleeping in their plow trucks or in villages along the road in designated quarantine housing, all to keep the road open. Emergency plowing has been necessary for medevacs and fuel deliveries, and special plowing for the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation to get COVID-19 vaccines to villages. The ice road is funded by a hodgepodge of about 30 entities, mainly consisting of cities, tribes, Native corporations, and school districts along the route, and the limiting factor is money. The regional Calista Native Corporation is lobbying the state to dedicate more funding to the ice road project.