Hi,

I spent some time at Aventures Nord-Bec, a dog sledding company (Stoneham, Quebec, CANADA). They have around 220 dogs of three breeds: siberian huskies, alaskans and alaskan malamutes.

I often use SS4 for various usage and I really like it. I use it to cut various things, remove frozen food, cut cords and woods, etc.

It's a very well made knive, I can't ask more. Small enough to carry it and solid with a very comfortable handle. I abuse it, for example, removing frozed food from metal dog bowl. I first stomp on it around metal bowl and then I stomp harder on one area and then I pry it out. Obvously, I often hit the metal, but I don't care, SS4 is very solid and won't chip:




My friend has a 30$ knive and it's very chipped, it's more like a saw than a knive. He is very impressed with mine. Me either.

The only drawback of SS4: it's very hard to sharpen it on a stone...


Here's my SS4:




Here's the following pictures of Aventures Nord-Bec, a very nice company. One thing I like from there is that they never hit dogs. If they saw someone of us hitting a dog, they will fire him without question whatever the reason is.





slush:


Atchouk:


Afternoon dog sledding:


They never sleep in their dog house (it's Chowi):


Amarok:
[img]http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...42536106_671981106_3380554_7681036_n.jpg[/img]

Pascal, owner of Aventures Nord-Bec:
[img]http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...42556106_671981106_3380556_1121174_n.jpg[/img]

This day was hard for dogs, too much snow, they worked hard:
[img]http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...42591106_671981106_3380561_7682076_n.jpg[/img]

Sautern, a retiree:
[img]http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...49101106_671981106_3380603_5678815_n.jpg[/img]

Dog kennel:
[img]http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...49106106_671981106_3380604_6885665_n.jpg[/img]

Café and Noisette:
[img]http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...58356106_671981106_3380799_3526905_n.jpg[/img]

Major and Laska:
[img]http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...79761106_671981106_3380879_7082981_n.jpg[/img]

Max:
[img]http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...79826106_671981106_3380886_2107488_n.jpg[/img]

Minie and Pepsi:
[img]http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...79896106_671981106_3380894_4885336_n.jpg[/img]

Mazouka:
[img]http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...80366106_671981106_3380952_1753314_n.jpg[/img]

Dog sledding:
[img]http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...79916106_671981106_3380898_4740470_n.jpg[/img]

Veronique, Pascal's wife, and Plume:
[img]http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...79966106_671981106_3380905_5382734_n.jpg[/img]

[img]http://photos-a.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...80001106_671981106_3380909_3145405_n.jpg[/img]

Plume:
[img]http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...80031106_671981106_3380914_2213781_n.jpg[/img]

Equinox:
[img]http://photos-h.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...80061106_671981106_3380918_3786452_n.jpg[/img]
[img]http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...180066106_671981106_3380919_709724_n.jpg[/img]

Ferrari with a scar on his nose. Dogs happens to fight between them and when they fight, they do it to kill. We already lost a dog because of it. It's not a 'normal' fighting like other dogs. We have to separate them fast and wisely. It's more like an art than a science to stop the fight. We don't hit them, even during a fight.

[img]http://photos-e.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...80276106_671981106_3380942_5363497_n.jpg[/img]

360lbs of meat and a bag of dog food each day:
[img]http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...180356106_671981106_3380950_620145_n.jpg[/img]


Thanks to Dan for making the SS4, it's one of the best knive I ever owned.