Musher Details

Ryan Santiago, 35, was born and raised in California. He attended college in Santa Cruz where he received a degree in History in 2006. He spent the next eight years living in Santa Cruz and working in sales for large distributors in the restaurant industry. He moved to Austin, Texas in 2011 to continue his career. In 2013, he says he decided to stop participating in life and start living it. He dropped everything and started adventuring abroad in Nepal and New Zealand. In 2014, had had the opportunity to work with sled dogs at Nature’s Kennel, with the Stielstra’s. Things took off from there and he moved permanently to Alaska in 2016 and is working at the Seavey’s Iditaride Sled Dog Tours, where he has been a shop manager for the last three years. He lists his hobbies as hiking, water sports and traveling.