Riley Dyche leaving the chute | Article/Image Credit: www.kwwl.com/ - Wasilla, Alaska 
Iowan chases sled dog dreams in Alaska
You can always find Riley Dyche surrounded by his four legged friends.
“My whole adult life I’ve been working with dogs,” says Dyche.
However, it’s been a long journey to arrive where he’s at now. Dyche is a graduate of the former Farragut High School in southwest Iowa, but it wasn’t until he moved out Colorado for college that dogs really became his obsession.
“There was a winter tourism kennel there where they give dog sled rides,” he recalls, “I started running dogs there kind of as a college job.”
But in 2012 it became much more than that. Dyche moved himself to Alaska with the goal of becoming a serious dog musher.
Eight years later and more than 2,600 miles from home the Iowan found himself face to face with the top dog mushers in the most famous dog sled race in the world, the Iditarod.
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