“I'm Casey Randall, and I've lived in Alaska for 25 and a half years now. I'm a dog musher.

For us, dog mushing is a family adventure. We're going into our sixth season of having a dog kennel. We have 45 sled dogs. We started with six or seven, and that multiplied very quickly. We do it together. My husband, Matt, and our two kids.”

“I’ve been out here on the Talachulitna for 16 years, since the 2008 economic crash. I was a masonry contractor in Oregon, and I just didn’t want to do it anymore. My wife asked me what I wanted to do, and I told her I wanted to go fishing. She said ‘Where?’ I said ‘Alaska.’ A year later we ended up in Anchorage, and the next day, we landed on the Talachulitna River.”

“My name is Gary. I own some property here on Alexander Creek and I’ve been here for about 25 years, building log cabins and enjoying a remote lifestyle.

My first experience on Alexander Creek occurred in 1974. I was flown out here as a part of a complimentary tour by my employer to enjoy silver salmon fishing along with some of my coworkers.”

“I'm Mike Mason, and I’m a lifelong Alaskan. I lived up in the Mat-Su Valley for most of my life and then I moved to Alexander Creek here in 1999, because I had this dream about living in the bush. I just figured it would be a weekend type thing. And within three months I moved here. I learned the way of life around here, and started boating. All the fishing back then was really good.”

“I have a cabin in Deshka Landing, on the Susitna River. Originally it was my parents’. They bought the property when I was 10 or 11, but even before then, we would go up there all the time to do a lot of salmon fishing, and go camping there. “

“I graduated from college with a nursing degree, and I came to Alaska to pay off my scholarship. I wanted to go to New York, to a busy emergency room situation. But I went to Anchorage, and worked at the Alaska Native Medical Center in the ICU. There, I met my husband Carl, who was an audiologist.”

“I grew up in Colorado, and my family exposed us to fishing, and camping. As I got older, I spent more time in the woods, and I was 14 when I started really getting into fly fishing. The moment I did it I was hooked — pardon the pun.”