Brittany Colbath holds one of her lead dogs - Hill, NH A GREAT START FOR MUSHERS
Sled dog drivers enjoy chance to work out dogs on Hill trails
Sled dog drivers are enjoying the opportunity created by recent snows to get their teams out to the Profile Falls-Old Hill Village trails for conditioning runs on real snow.
Up until recently, the only training option available for them were dry-land wheeled rigs or to have their teams run ahead of ATVs.
On Friday morning, Brittany Colbath and her mother, Danae Bryar, both from Bryar Patch Racing of Gilford, worked out at Hill for the second time in a week, with their dogs pulling a sled in front of a snowmobile.
"It's our second time out. We were here on Wednesday," said Bryar, who is the sister of two-time Laconia World Championship Sled Dog derby musher Keith Bryar II, who died last year at the age of 57 after a five-year battle with cancer.