The air up here is so cold and dry this method actually works quite well. You're just missing that downy-soft feeling.In our last nightly tour of the village we made sure to walk past as many places as possible despite the numbing of our legs. The new clinic was quite centralized and appeared ready for anything with stretchers posed to move on the front porch.
New homes were being built at the south end of town. All the houses are very close together to benefit from the community sewer and water lines. Noorvik is one of only two villages that utilizes a unique vacuum sewer system. Most everyone is linked to this system and enjoys the benefits of indoor toilets and showers as well as laundry facilities. Many other villages are still using the traditional 'honey-bucket' system with a garbage bag in a 5 gallon pail, so I was pleasantly surprised with the luxuries Noorvik had to offer.
The foothills of the Brooks Range to the North rise past the Kobuk River as high schoolers buzzz us on their sno-gos, waving as they go.
The cemetery on the bluff south of town is one of 5 in the area. 
At one time, according to Gordon the man with a thousand jobs at the school, Noorvik was much larger when the caribou were more plentiful.
Mollia found a friend as we walked home to the school.
...and yes that is a leg of caribou in her mouth.
The sun sets to the northwest across the Kobuk River on our last night in Noorvik.
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