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For nearly a decade early in their married life, Scott and Tiffany Haugen lived in remote Alaska. There and to this day, wild game and fish – like these sheefish taken through 7 feet of ice – are on the daily menu for these outdoor industry professionals and fishing, hunting and cookbook authors. (SCOTT HAUGEN)
FISHING PARTNERS, LIFE PARTNERS SHARING LOVE OF THE OUTDOORS, EACH OTHER BY SCOTT HAUGEN
W
e met in first grade. Our parents grew up together. Our grandparents even knew one another. I didn’t talk to Tiffany Fountain much during our years in elementary, middle and high school. But we did meet for dinner one evening after graduating from college – her from Oregon State University, me from the rival University of Oregon. “What are you going to do with your
teaching degree?” she asked. “Move to the Alaskan Arctic, where I can teach in a tiny village and learn to hunt and trap with the Inupiat Eskimo peoples,” I replied. She looked at me and offered, “You better do it now while you’re young and single, because no woman will follow you up there!” Tiffany had also earned an education degree. Four months later we were engaged. Nine months later we were
married and teaching school in one of the tiniest locations on the Arctic coast.
WE’VE BEEN MARRIED NEARLY 32 years
and our lives have never slowed down. After teaching in small schools for seven years in the Arctic, we moved to Sumatra, Indonesia, where we taught at an international school for four years. We started our own family and eventually moved back home to Walterville,
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