What Makes Alaska Really Cold

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Brrrrrr!It’s really cold here, ad it could get even colder!It makes it really hard to explore around this amazing if you are not prepared.For example,climate makes it difficult to explore.The terrain is hard to walk on especially if you try to walk on ice.Also the whole trip is on foot because there are no gas stations around there,so you can’t travel on car.

It’s always cold in Alaska.In paragraph 9 in the reading it says they had to cross a frozen lake on foot,so it must have been really cold.The climate in Alaska is from -30 degrees to -70 degrees,I know this because it they said it in the video.This made it harder for the people in the gold rush and still today.There is lots of snow too so it was even colder and some people died from

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