At age 79, former logger and outdoorsman Gary Hess has negotiated some pretty dicey and dangerous tracks across Southeast Alaska, but few have compared to the multi-vehicle pileup he was a part of Saturday near the intersection of Third Avenue and Mud Bay Road.
Hess calls it his great ice adventure.
Just after noon, Hess was driving his ¾-ton, four-wheel-drive pickup truck up Third Avenue near the Haines Police station when he spotted a small…
