Meet The Crew
Sheep Creek – Summer Camp – Juneau
Meet our talented dog mushers who lead thrilling adventures through the breathtaking Sheep Creek – Summer Camp Glacier in Juneau. Learn about their skills, passion, and love for their sled dogs.
camp manager
gabe alvarez
Hi, I’m Gabriel Alvarez — Sheep Creek Manager, dog musher, whitewater raft guide, and all-around outdoors guy. I’ve spent every winter in Moran since I started at Sheep Creek, running dogs, wrangling, and sharing the wild with awesome people. I graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and somewhere along the way, I fell in love with mushing. My dream? To race in the Iditarod one day. Until then, you’ll find me on the trail, on the river, or swapping stories by the fire.
Noah Brinkerhoff Miller is our Assistant Manager as well as a musher tourguide. Gabe worked for us back in 2022 and has since been spending his winters mushing dogs! Noah also joined us back in 2022, but returned to us last year as a tour van driver.
musher
kristi paz
I’m originally from a small town in Georgia, and I found my way into dogsledding while working in Bridge-Teton National Forest in Moran, Wyoming. Originally working somewhere else, I quickly found myself drawn to the dog team and kennel there. After returning for a second season, I fully embraced the opportunity to be involved. What started out as only volunteering, quickly turned into running sleds and managing a team of 14 dogs. I fell in love with the responsibility, dedication, and art of working with a dog team. The experience has taught me invaluable lessons in teamwork, trust, and endurance. Building relationships with each dog and having continuous learning opportunities, has been the most rewarding part of the job. Learning their trust is something I deeply value as well.
Outside of mushing, I enjoy reading, listening to music, and spending time outdoors. Looking ahead, my goal is to continue gaining experience and developing my skills with the hope of one day competing in a race.
musher
abigail wright
I have previously lived in the Caribbean and South Florida for 22 years. After receiving my B.A. and M.B.A for Business Management, I worked as a Financial Analyst for 15 years. However, the thought of life in a cubicle for the next 30 years was terrifying. I left my finance career to pursue my childhood dream of fix-wing aviation. I have had many dogs in my life since childhood and a chance encounter with Gold Rush Dog Tours has opened my heart and soul to the incredible world of sled dog mushing; working as a musher will continue to finance my ongoing flight education. My lifelong obsession with dogs and flight has finally become a dream
come true!
musher
Redman Glisson
I was born in Oklahoma, but I didn’t like the heat much down south. So when I was given an opportunity to work on the Denver glacier in Skagway, it was an obvious choice. Then, during this winter I learned to mush from Clayton Perry in the Montana mountains…
musher
kara grangroth
I grew up in Minnesota. I followed in my two older sister’s foot steps and started dog sledding in 2015. Shortly after my sisters and I started our own kennel of Alaskan Huskies, called True North Sled Dogs. In 2020, I took sole ownership of the kennel. I continue to raise, train and race Alaskan Huskies.
I am excited to spend the season doing what the dogs and I love to do. Where better to run dogs, than in Alaska?!
crew
More to come…
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