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Written by Dogsled.com
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Wednesday, 11 October 2006 |
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Fairbanks, Alaska
Gwen Holdmann, born in New York in 1972, grew
up in Wisconsin, went to high school in Illinois and college at Bradley
University where she graduated in 1994 with a degree in physics. She started
mushing as a handler for Arleigh Jorgenson while she was in school and
moved to Alaska the day after graduation, using the excuse of going to
graduate school, but in actuality, she wanted to mush dogs. She currently
works as an operator technician for NASA at the University of Alaska,
Fairbanks, and lives north of Fairbanks in a log cabin she built herself
with no running water, electricity or phone. She says she devotes all
her time and money to her kennel of 45 dogs. Every since her boyfriend,
Ken Anderson, ran Iditarod in 1999, Gwen has wanted to run it. She's run
the Quest in the meantime and says she and Ken continue to argue about
which race is the toughest. Gwen is a member of the Two Rivers Dog Mushers
and the Fairbanks Tennis Association. When she has extra time she enjoys
sailing and tennis.
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