HUNTING
FROM FIELD...
In 32 years of marriage and as partners in the outdoors industry, Scott and Tiffany Haugen have shared plenty of adventures. One of the most enjoyable hunts for the Haugens is fall turkey hunting with their dog, Echo, a pudelpointer. (SCOTT HAUGEN)
LOVE, AMERICAN (OUTDOORS) STYLE HOW FISHING AND HUNTING ALSO GAVE A COUPLE THEIR PROFESSIONAL PARTNERSHIP By Scott Haugen
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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 and 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, Oregon, east of Eugene.
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