Some snowy scenes around the village.

Games of the North, PBS     Here's a really good video to watch.  It's about the native olympics that are held every year.  The games are very different from our olympic games.  This year Kotlik will host the district Native Youth Olympic games for school age kids.  We won't have all of the games seen on  the video but I am looking forward to this event.

 These sticks mark the spots where people have ice holes they use for fishing.  These holes are about 40 feet apart and they are used for munucking (I don't know the actual spelling).  They lower a net into one of the holes then tie the other end of the net off at the other hole so it is like a net hanging from a ceiling under water. 

 When they pull the net up hopefully there will be some fish in it.  By the way, the people here have a hard time making the "sh" sound so when they say 'fish' it comes out sounding like 'fisss' which rhymes with miss.

This is just a dirty ice hole.

At noon on the day before the winter solstice this was the brightest it got all day.  In a span of a few hours you can see a sunrise and sunset.  On a cold, clear day like today it is amazing.

It was a cold day in Kotlik.