Our Staff
While our summer staff reaches in excess of 130 employees, our core staff of managers and owners prepare for the busy summer all year long. Meet our year round staff here and if you need anything, please contact us!
Adam Engelman
×Adam is the Assistant Outfitting Manager and Fly Shop Manager who rejoined the Three Rivers team in March 2024. Adam guided both fly fishing and rafting with Three Rivers from 2019 – 2022, and after graduating from Western Colorado University’s School of Business, he moved to the front range. He is back, and now oversees all fishing operations, including the fly shop and fishing guides, and assists the front desk, rafting, shuttle drivers and maintenance teams. Adam grew up in the Gunnison Valley and is hooked on all of the adventures this place has to offers. If he is not in the fly shop, you are sure to find him on the water, or in the backcountry with his wife Heidi, and two golden retrievers.
Adam can be contacted at: [email protected]
Hadley Nelson
×After graduating from Western Colorado University in 2023, Hadley joined the year-round management team after several years of working as a seasonal employee at the resort. As the Assistant Outfitting Manager, Hadley oversees the rafting operations including the activities desk staff, photographers, shuttle drivers and raft guides. She also assists at the front desk, fly shop, smokehouse, and in the housekeeping department as well. Originally from Fort Collins, Hadley moved to the Gunnison Valley in 2019 for college where she soon fell in love with all the recreation this valley has to offer. Hadley loves to spend time in the outdoors whether that is whitewater rafting, hiking, backpacking, camping or skiing—and her dog Marley is almost always along-side!
You may contact Hadley at: [email protected]
Jamie Antonarez
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Jamie Antonarez is our Housekeeping Manager, overseeing a large staff in the summer who are responsible for our sparkling clean cabins, homes and lodge rooms. Her department is also responsible for cleaning all of our public facilities, including restrooms, Dance Hall, Pavilion, and laundry rooms. During the winter months, she leads a smaller cleaning team for all of our winter guest cabins and long-term housing units. With years of experience in housekeeping and laundry management, Jamie joined us ready to take on this busy department.
Kim Spencer
×Dirk Schumacher
×Michelle Clark
×After graduating from Western Colorado University in 2021, Michelle Clark joined the year-round management team as the Front Desk Manager where she oversees lodging and the convenience store. Michelle moved from the Inland Northwest to the Gunnison Valley in 2014 to fulfill her childhood dream of being a ski bum in a mountain town. After several seasons of ski instructing at Crested Butte Mountain Resort in the winter and working at Three Rivers in the summer, she earned a degree from Western’s School of Business. Michelle’s 6 summers of seasonal work at the resort, including river guiding, housekeeping, activities desk, front desk and accounting, prepared her for the Front Desk Manager position. In her free time, Michelle enjoys Alpine & Nordic skiing, mountain & road biking, whitewater rafting, art, and going to concerts at the I Bar Ranch. She lives in Crested Butte with her partner, Trey, and their cat.
You may contact Michelle at: [email protected]
Luke Schumacher
×Nate Gibson
×Nate Gibson is our year round Maintenance Manager. He joined our family in the summer of 2018. The Maintenance job is huge and he has a lot on his plate with the maintenance of 52 cabins, 3 vacation homes, our large office, an auto shop, 30+ vehicles, 20 trailers, a mobile home park, sewer system, water system and so much more! Nate has lived in the valley for quite awhile and is no stranger to maintaining large properties. He previously worked with Crested Butte Mountain Resort taking care of many of their condos. Nate is an avid outdoorsman and Denver Broncos fan. He lives in Almont with his wife, Des, and their 2 dogs.
Jen Bickford
×The Schumacher Family
×The Schumacher family has owned and operated Three Rivers Resort since 1983. Mark moved from Chicago in 1971 to attend Western State College (its name then!). His Bachelor’s degree and subsequent years of construction work helped prepare him for the demands and challenges of resort ownership. Over the years numerous cabins have been built and/or renovated, a restaurant and Outfitting business have been added, the General Store has been expanded and a myriad of other improvements and growth have been implemented. Mark has always been very community-involved, serving as President of both the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District and Chamber of Commerce and on the boards of the Planning Commission, Tourism Association and local Hockey Association. He is a golf and fishing enthusiast, bird hunter and occasional mountain biker and skier as well!
Mark and Mary Jo are an owner-operator team. She oversees the management and operations of the Housekeeping department. Guidelines for the cleaning and presentation of each cabin are strict, the goal being to prepare each one as if a guest were visiting her own home. She loves the outdoor mountain activities like running, hiking, biking and skiing. Mary Jo has also served on local boards, including the Chamber of Commerce, Kids Kount, Mentors, Friends of the Library and Hockey Moms.
The Schumacher children grew up on-site and from young ages worked at the resort in many capacities. Presently Sarah has moved onto a career in Nursing, while Dirk and Luke have joined the year-round staff of Three Rivers Resort as Resort Managers.