Swim coach, teacher traded southern roots for adventure

At a college party in Midgeville, Ga., seven years ago, a friend of Robert Butker’s introduced him to Courtney Hunt. Later, through the same friend, Butker met Mike Vondette, co-owner of the Gold Rush Brewing tourist attraction in Skagway.

Those introductions proved fateful. Butker and Hunt are engaged to be married. Butker, who coaches the Haines Dolphins, also works for Vondette at Gold Rush Brewing. Hunt teaches at Chilkat Valley Preschool.

Butker, 26, and Hunt,…