What is the Nenana Ice Classic? The Ice Classic is Alaska's greatest guessing game! In Nenana during1917 a group of engineers surveying for the Alaska Railroad bet $800 putting in their …

May 9, 2023 · The Nenana Ice Classic is organized by residents of Nenana, who install the tripod and clock system every year. The plot below shows the day of break up for each year of the …

Tickets on sale February 1 to April 5; festival in March. This is the lottery, Alaska-style. To enter, just buy a ticket and pick the date and time (down to the minute) in April or May when you …

The Nenana Ice Classic is an annual ice pool contest held in Nenana, Alaska. It is an event in which individuals attempt to guess the exact time the Tanana River ice will break up at …

May 8, 2023 · The ice on the Tanana River went out in Interior Alaska on Monday evening, stopping the clock in the century-old Nenana Ice Classic river breakup guessing game. A 30 …

Feb 27, 2023 · In the central Alaskan town of Nenana, watching ice melt is more exciting than it sounds. Each spring for more than 100 years, residents have organized a high-stakes …

Mar 5, 2020 · At 3:30 P.M. on March 8, a wooden tripod will be embedded in that ice, and over the next month, tens of thousands of Alaskans will place their bets on when it will melt. Tickets …

May 11, 2020 · “The Nenana Ice Classic is a unique climate record in Alaska in that break-up has been determined at the same place, in the same weird way, in a town that is almost the same …

Apr 21, 2022 · Called the Nenana Ice Classic, each year a 26-foot-tall tripod is embedded into the ice on the Tanana River on the first Saturday in March. Then everyone waits. Usually long into …

Apr 26, 2023 · Nenana is a small Alaskan town that lies along the Tanana River, roughly 75 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Fairbanks. Ice forms over the Tanana River every autumn, …