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Phrases and Words

you might hear in Alaska

bergschrund
decimal degrees
esker moraine
firn line
gangline
glissade

jökulhlaup
litter
lower 48
microspikes
moose turns
skinning

snowmachine
spikeys
sublimate
through glacier
toe-in

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