I went for a walk in the snow on the back of Pikes Peak (Divide, CO) with my friends, Judy and Shing.

Shing is a Havanese. Most of the walk he was off-leash, and it was hilarious to watch him rocket over the snowy tundra, his ears flapping in the arctic breeze. Occasionally he would pause for a photo op, half submerged in a snowbank. I wish my phone’s camera took better photos…

The only scary point for Shing was when three full-grown labs (a golden, black and chocolate), out of voice range of their human, came bounding down the trail and wanted to “play.” They were easily 4 or 5 times his size and got a little rough for the diminuitive fellow, so he hunkered close to Judy’s legs. After that excitement, though, when the big dogs had moved on, he was back to his energetically intrepid self.

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