Yup, 3.7 miles on snowshoes today with a small group of friends and my dog. We gained about 900' but were moving slow, one of the guys has two brand new knees. I'm impressed that he came out and hiked with us!
Also - heard a story of another local guy who was hiking recently with this two husky dogs. A pair of large feral dogs (not wolves, large dogs) started stalking the guy and his dogs and then attacked! He tried to fend them off with his trekking poles and basically destroyed his poles in the process. One of his dogs was hurt bad, went to the doggie hospital and is in bad shape but will survive. The other fared better. He didn't have pepper spray or a firearm, but is buying his first handgun now.
