Update:

The river is moving! The ice is moving down the main channel over towards Oscarville, at what looked to be a decent clip. There is a little bit of a jam by where the slough that the village sits on flows into the main river, and the slough was rising a little. A group of us went for a walk down by the airport, and the level in the slough had risen noticeably from what it had been a couple of hours previously.

Things are not so well back upstream: the village of Crooked Creek was hit hard by rising flood waters behind an ice dam downstream from the village. The damage is bad, and the water is still high. For more information, the Anchorage Daily News has this follow-up: http://www.adn.com/2011/05/11/1857898/kuskokwim-flood-rose-so-fast-residents.html

While we were down at the river, some of us began "washing" our hair in the ice-choked stream. It is apparently meant to wash away impending illness. What the heck, I thought...so I washed my hair, too. I will hope that it does some good.

On the way back from the river, we stopped to listen to frogs croaking in one of the ponds. A flock of geese flew overhead. One of our group said, "Look at all the soup!" Ya gotta like life in the Bush...especially in the springtime...