Nico and I went out this morning for our first ski of the year. We explored several miles of logging roads on the Paul Smith’s College campus. I skied 5.6-miles, so I can only imagine Nico topping about 10 miles with all his running around. We continue to use the e-collar on him when out in the woods like this, but today he didn’t even need a vibration because he’s getting much better at responding to commands and knowing not to run too far away.

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