Not meaning to nitpick - I honestly have no idea what word you mean
here. Perhaps a definition (since using it in a sentence didn't help)?
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Well done!
Hah! If I'd written
sluggish, the meaning would have been clear. I wonder if it's an Alaskanism - we've lots of 'em.
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1. Congratulations, jvonbokel! That'd just get me to town and back.
2. On further perusing, I see "ramp" suggestions elsewhere - Denver and other such towards Salina KS, etc. That should work....
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Other Alaskanisms:
*did you know "
glacier" is a verb? As in: the Richardson Highway's been glaciering badly this winter between here and Summit Lake. DOT can't keep up with its steam trucks, and we've had three really bad wipeouts on that ice.
*Where other winter locations may see snowmobiles - by the way, UAF students built an electric one! - here we have
snowmachines and also
sno-gos. As in: The 28th annual Arctic Man Ski & Sno-Go Classic, held each year right at "our" glacier, finally saw the 4-minute barrier definitively smashed - and by the top three finishers, too!
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Outside has a special meaning here. As in: Real Alaskans don't go Outside during winter. What it means is "anywhere that is not Alaska".
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So it's about 300 miles from here, at elevation 2,700 feet, to Anchorage at sea level. I wonder if that drop is enough to overcome the ups and downs along the way..... hmmmmmm.... I do think that inviolable 2nd Law of Thermodynamics would be rearing its gnarly head in all the climbs intermediate to that destination.....
