A team of sled dogs races through the woods near Appalaches resort. (FRANCIS FONTAINE PHOTOGRAPHE) - Chaudière-Appalaches, Quebec, Canada 
The dog does the work when dog snowshoeing
When Hugues Parisien walks towards the kennel, the dogs go wild. Howling and singing and speaking in canine tongues, they leap against their chains, hoping to be chosen to tear through the forest and snow.
“I connect with them,” says Parisien, a former circus instructor who taught kids juggling, acrobatics and the art of trapeze. “Working with dogs is freedom.”
Parisien, 35, tends to a pack of 50 huskies and malamutes at Appalaches, a sprawling resort in St-Paul-de-Montminy, in Québec’s south-central Chaudière-Appalaches region: an area nestled between the St. Lawrence River and the rugged northwestern edge of the Appalachian Mountains, an ancient mountain range that runs a diagonal 2,400-kilometre course from Newfoundland to the U.S. state of Alabama.
Adjacent to Quebec’s Parc régional du Massif du Sud, the resort makes a celebration out of winter. We’re about to try cani-raquette, or dog-snowshoeing — a form of winter transportation that First Nations people have been using since time immemorial.
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