"In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?"
http://www.decorphoto.com/ak-slang.htm
Cheechako: Anyone new to Alaska Sourdough: Anyone old to Alaska
(It confirms my guess. I was pretty sure that "Sourdough" was an oldtimer, so I guess that Cheechako was someone who someone who was new to Alaska (like a "flatlander" in Vermont))
For more enlightenment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheechako
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Date: 2009-07-29 05:01 am (UTC)"In the winter time it's the frozen road that is competing with the view of ice fogged frigid beauty, the cold though, doesn't it split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?"
http://www.decorphoto.com/ak-slang.htm
Cheechako: Anyone new to Alaska
Sourdough: Anyone old to Alaska
(It confirms my guess. I was pretty sure that "Sourdough" was an oldtimer, so I guess that Cheechako was someone who someone who was new to Alaska (like a "flatlander" in Vermont))
For more enlightenment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheechako
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Date: 2009-07-30 02:34 am (UTC)