Ashley Patterson takes a team of dogs out on the trail for the first sled trip of the year near her home in Shirley.
Patterson slips a harness on Poof as she prepares to take a team of dogs out on the trail for the first sled trip of the year.
Snow melts on the face of Elm, one of Ashley Patterson's sled dogs, after a training run in Shirley.
Patterson feeds beef fat to her sled dogs.
Ashley Patterson feeds a team of dogs after returning from a training run near her home in Shirley. Patterson is training for the 2015 Cam-Am Crown 250-mile dog sled race.
Gilly, one of Patterson's sled dogs, relaxes in his house after a training run.
Patterson spends a moment with Owl, one of her lead sled dogs.
Patterson and her team of dogs train for the Cam-Am Crown 250-mile dog sled race.
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