Sean Rose was driving north on the Parks Highway when he got caught in the avalanche. An avalanche closed the Parks Highway near Cantwell around 10 a.m. on Friday morning, dumping about six feet of snow and debris across mile 219.

The avalanche at Mile 219 closed the Parks Highway on Friday morning as state public safety officials warned of icy road conditions and reports of vehicles in ditches and collisions across Interior Alaska.

An avalanche has blocked mile 219 of the Parks Highway near Denali National Park, resulting in a full highway closure. Around 10 a.m., an avalanche on the Parks Highways stopped traffic from moving north and south as the snow “was the width of the road as well as six feet tall,