A Moose Stepped Onto an Icy Anchorage Driveway and Slid All the Way to the Street

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 12, 2026 — Moose are built for snow. Glare ice is another matter.

Early Tuesday, as freezing rain glazed roads across Southcentral Alaska, Jeremy Saporito's home security camera caught a moose wandering off his lawn and onto his sloped driveway, UPI reported. It got exactly one step of grip.

From there the animal started sliding. Its long legs went in different directions, it dropped onto its backside and it rode the rest of the way down to the street. Then it stood up, collected itself and walked off as if nothing had happened.

The moose had plenty of company in having a bad morning. Anchorage schools opened two hours late because of the ice, several Mat-Su schools canceled classes outright, a People Mover bus route was pulled, and Anchorage police had logged 22 crashes by 10:15 a.m., Alaska's News Source reported. The station summed up the moose's version this way: even the big ungulate "ended up ice skating down the hill."

Nobody was hurt, the moose included.