MEDIA
Valiant effort to save sled dog fails​
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January 23, 2025 ​By Wendy Long
Photographer The Guardian
“What is true is that we tried everything. And whether he went to surgery or didn't, the reality is his living body would not have made it. I can only hope his spirit follows us and comes home,”
wrote Marla BB, who operates Hilltown Sleddogs in West Chesterfield.
This Mass. blues singer took her show — and Alaskan huskies — on a different road​
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June 2, 2024 ​By Ashley Potter
"When she was 60 years old, Marla BB found herself in the frigid cold of Alaska with only the company of her 12 Alaskan huskies.Now, turning 65 this month, BB has recounted that journey – a three-week trek, 750 miles across the frozen Yukon River to Nome in temperatures that dropped as low as 60 degrees below 0 – in a new, illustrated book, “Our Serum Run Story by the T’s, U’s, V’s & Me!”
Across the great white north: New children’s book
chronicles epic Alaskan trip by dog sled
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May 3, 2024 ​By Steve Pfarrer
"Crossing the snowy wastes of Alaska in deep winter, when the temperature is plunging past 40 belowzero, might not be everybody’s cup of tea. But for Marla BB, it was a little bit of paradise — a three-week sojourn with her own Alaskan sled dogs, pulling her along a historic trail not that far south of the Arctic Circle through a snowbound landscape she calls “magical and mystical … everything was shimmering.”
HILLTOWN SLEDDOGS IN SLED DOG CENTRAL
November 16, 2021 Climate change and dry land competition
"Even though winter racing has been on the decline, BB [Marla] believes dry land racing is gaining popularity among mushers." - Sled dog central
Photo Credit: Ben Domaingue photos / Monitor staff - BENJAMIN DOMAINGUE
HILLTOWN SLEDDOGS IN CONCORD MONITOR
November 5, 2021 Marla BB finishes a race with a team of five Alaskan Huskies
"Sled dog racing evokes images of canines and their caretakers charging through frozen trees across harsh winter climates. Yet, because of changing New England winters and a frequent lack of snow on the ground, the sport has been forced to adapt in order to survive." - Concord Monitor
HILLTOWN SLEDDOGS IN THE ATLANTIC
AUGUST 30, 2020 Marla BB with her creamy dogs
"Musher Marla Brodsky greets her team before getting them in their harness during the second annual Blue Mountain Sled Dog and North County Musher's mid-distance sled-dog race in Granthan, New Hampshire, on February 16, 2019..." - The Atlantic
Hilltown Sleddogs featured on
Safety to Nome!
Premiered Aug 5, 2020
Montage of Mushers & Machiners last day from Safety to Nome! (unbeknownst that a pandemic awaited us at home, we were the last travelers allowed in the villages...) Filmed by MEAGAN MURPHY for Deliberate Healing Productions
Sled Dog Racers Returns from Alaska During Pandemic
June 1, 2020
"Marla Brodsky set off for Alaska to compete in a 700-mile dog sled dog race several months ago. Brodsky had no clue about the threat posed by the novel coronavirus. When she returned home to West Chesterfield, MA, the state was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic..."
July 25, 2020 Interviewed & Filmed by MEAGAN MURPHY
Yes we can & Yes we did! 750 miles all 12 dogs on the line all the way Nenana to Nome:) The Hilltown Sleddogs do it all, sprint, mid-distance & distance...Thank you Trixie, Taffy, Tundra, Tra, Toots, Topaz, Ulu, Una, Vox, Vinnie, Venus & Violet:) - Marla BB
Reviving the Serum Run
February 7, 2020
"In January 1925, amid what was thought to be a tonsillitis outbreak, Nome’s only physician had a revelation. Dr. Curtis Welch realized that it wasn’t tonsillitis killing people, it was diphtheria. With barely enough serum to save half a dozen lives, a plan was hatched.At the time, the only way to get to Nome during winter was a 30-day trip by dog team, through 50 below temperatures and 80 mph winds — a treacherous proposal..."
Colorful opening of the World Dog Sledding Championships
October 23, 2019 Jonatan Bergöö
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A lot of Nybro residents had gathered at the square to witness Wednesday's opening of the World Sled Dog Championships. It was a colorful cavalcade as participants from a total of 28 countries showed up. Organizer Sussie Grönberg has put a lot of time into the preparations."
" - Barometeren OT
Ruby Rothenburg och Marla BB från USA kelade med hundarna Ulu och Topaz under invigningen av draghunds-VM. Bild: Jonatan Bergöö
Barometern Newspaper (largest local paper in Sweden) 24 oktober 2019
Daytrippers: Taking the huskies out for a run
At Hilltown Sleddogs, humans, dogs and nature connect
January 10 2019 Jim Altman
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A far cry from Storrs, Connecticut, Northampton, Massachusetts still has it's share of huskies.
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For the past ten years Marla Brodsky, known as "Marla BB", has been offering sled dog rides through her venture called Hilltown Sled Dogs. Broadsky, who learned the dog sledding trade in Alaska and has traveled the world competing, has 21 Alaskan Huskies that are part of the team. "We call this a once in a lifetime experience," she said. "I trained in Alaska and then I brought a little bit of Alaska here."
Mush! Training for the the Can-Am dog sled race – in pictures ​
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January 08, 2018 ​By Joseph Prezioso/AFP/Getty
Photographer The Guardian
" Brodsky, a professional musher, is building her Alaskan husky dogs’ distance endurance to prepare them for 100- and 250-mile races. They often train in subzero conditions near their home in Massachusetts. Training Run for the 2018 Winter Mid-Distance Racing Season culminating in the Can-Am Crown International Dog Sled Race! Check us out in the UK's The Guardian
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Danny takes you dog sledding with 30 Alaskan huskies
Nov 15, 2018
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We take you on a trip to West Chesterfield, as Marla BB, from HilltownSleddogs.com, brings us for a ride with her Alaskan huskies…without any snow!
Marla uses techniques that she learned while training with Iditarod racers in Alaska, and built her own facility in Western Mass.
Please note: The ATV used in this segment was turned on and going about 10 mph during the ride, so the huskies are not entirely pulling the vehicle. That would be mean!
Dryland sled competition brings humans, dogs together in Waterville
October 21, 2018 Rachel Ohm Morning Sentinel
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There was no snow on the ground Sunday morning, but that did not stop a hardy crew of humans and canines from competing in a variety of dog sledding events at the Quarry Road Trails.All they needed were cool temperatures, good trails and competition.
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"We're dog sled people, so we're out all winter long," said Lynda Knowlton, shaking off the temperatures in the high 30s. "These temperatures are awesome. The dogs don't get overheated."
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Above: Racer Marla Brodsky hunkers down as her team of dogs competes in the six-dog rig race during dog sled races at Quarry Road Trails in Waterville on Sunday. Staff photo by David Leaming
Above Right: Racer Quinton Romer of Hilltown Sled Dogs calms some of his restless Alaskan Husky dogs between races during dog sled races at Quarry Road Trails in Waterville on Sunday. Staff photo by David Leaming
For Marla B. Brodsky of Chesterfield, her sled dog team is family​
January 24, 2018 LISA SPEAR Staff Writer Hampshire Gazette.
People come and they spend time with (the dogs) and it is healing. ... They learn how to interact with the dogs and it is transformative.” Brodsky says she often is told how sweet and loving her dogs are. “I do take pride in that I have something to do with that.”
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