ice road

noun, Cdn., a winter road built across frozen lakes, rivers, muskeg, etc. (COD)

“I remember very well the family going through the ice in the early eighties, which closed the ice road forever.”

“One part of the season after Christmas, I was making ice roads. ‘Cause the roads was done, but you had to put water on the roads because it took hauling at 24 hours a day all the time. Right. But they got to have ice on because they have a sleigh behind the truck.”