ALAN PECK - MUSHER

Alan Peck moved to Alaska in the spring of 1986 for summer work as a park ranger with Denali National Park. He worked at the Denali Park kennels that winter using freight sleds and large dogs to haul supplies and patrol the Park through mountainous terrain that offered a variety of challenges. Alan then handled for competitive long distance mushers before acquiring his own team for recreational travel. He later sold most of his team and concentrated on long distance ski-jor trips of up to 200 miles. Alan and his wife, Barbara Trost, began expanding their kennel again in 2000 through a breeding program that included champion Iditarod dogs. They maintain a small dog yard that allows them to spend a lot of time training the individual dogs so each one can reach its potential. Alan and Barbara were on the 2005 Serum Run and will again be on the trail for the 2006 journey. Similar to last year, they will be taking turns as dog musher and snow machiner.

Before traveling on the previous Serum Run, Alan’s snowmobile experience had been limited to hauling work equipment on glaciers in the Alaska Range, through the boreal forests of the Interior, and on the snow drifted tundra of the North Slope and northwest area of Alaska.

Alan has called several places home since arriving to Alaska. He has lived near McKinley Village, downstream of Ambler on the Kobuk River, on the Noatak River, and in Yakutat. He also spent nine years in Fairbanks before moving to his current residence in Eagle River near Anchorage.

Alan is a graduate of the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has been in government service with the National Park Service, U.S. Geological Survey, and is currently a Hydrologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His work has allowed him to travel all over remote parts of Alaska in every season.

During the 2005 Serum Run, Alan enjoyed the beauty of the landscape, the bonds developed among the expedition members, the opportunity to visit the villages along the way, and the chance to relive recent Alaskan history. He is looking forward to experiencing this again by participating in another Serum Run.