Damon Hargraves

I'm in Anchorage right now with the BSSD Student Broadcasting Team . Follow our live coverage of the Native Youth Olympics by clicking on one of the links below. You can also read about what we are doing if you visit the Stebbins School Blog . DSL QuickTime Stream rtsp://qtss.bssd.org/nyo Dial Up QuickTime Stream rtsp://qtss.bssd.org/nyo_small Windows Media Steam http://media.connectmd.com/starbak/default.html

Last year Heidi made herself a couple of guspuks (also pronounced quspuk or kuspuk depending on where you are). Lately, she's been working on one for me. She was able to make a pattern from an old guspuk of my dad's. She finished it today and it fits great. We are having a spirit week at school to help get everyone psyched for the state testing in a couple weeks. Friday is guspuk day, so guess what I'm wearing.

Heidi and I are in Unalakleet with the Stebbins Student Broadcasting Team covering the Iditarod checkpoint. Check out our websites: http://stebbins.bssd.org/ http://mushing.bssd.org/

The Stebbins boys and girls basketball teams played in St. Michael on Friday. Although they were just scrimmages, the games provided some excitement for the weekend. These were the first games of the season, and both the girls and boys played well. And if you didn't already know, Heidi is the Stebbins Knights girls basketball coach this year. Woohoo!!! Notice the scoreboard below. Yes, we were the home team. It was a successful night for the the Stebbins girls. Final score: 81-24. We played Savoonga . The weather has warmed up substantially since last weekend, and so Heidi and I thought we would take another group out to attempt to find the steamboats once again ( our first attempt proved unsuccessful ). With the added snow from the last few weeks, the ten mile trip across the tundra was now possible. P.S. Here's a rare behind the scenes look at how our blog is written. Heidi snapped this shot while I was writing last week's post. Neffy usually dictates the firs...

Heidi and I went moose hunting with our friends Drew and Candy last weekend, at least that's what we're calling it. We never saw a moose, and we didn't really try to look for one. Sometimes you just need a reason to get out. Here's our rig. That's a borrowed sled in the back to carry our gear. It's a twenty-five mile trip out to the cabin, so we needed to make sure that we had plenty of gear (yes Mom & Dad, I brought the pack shovel you gave me for Christmas so we could make a survival igloo if we needed). It was an absolutely beautiful drive, but at -30 degrees Fahrenheit we were glad to find the cabin when we did. Yes that's right, -30 flat cold, without windchill. And yes, that can get a little cold crossing the tundra mile after mile on a snowmachine. I'll have to say that it can't be done unless you have the right gear. Heidi and I have been building up our gear for awhile now and so we can do this sort of thing. A large fox scampere...

Here are some more pictures of Heidi and me out on the tundra. We are receiving a little more snow each night, but we still can't quite make it to the steamboats yet. When you are out here and there isn't another living thing in sight you really feel like you are on another planet. Our parkas are our spacesuits and the snowmachine is our moon buggy. This is what it looks like in every direction.