ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The fiancée of Iron Dog racer Skye Rench called the discovery of the 32-year-old’s body last week bittersweet while saying it brings his loved ones a bit of closure, months after he fell through Susitna River ice while riding on an ATV as he worked as a drilling contractor.
“It’s just so heavy,” Heidi Goozen said on Tuesday. “But then, at the same time, I felt relieved because I always would think about the river and like, ‘I wonder where he is?’ you know, like, what is he hung up on or, just curious and my mind would always go there and now I don’t have to think about that, which is nice, I guess.”
Alaska State Troopers say Rench’s body was positively identified on Friday after a private pilot discovered him a day earlier near the mouth of the Susitna River…