Gina Begin
Nelson, BC, Canada
Although she’s a Florida girl, exploration called her away after the final bell of her high school career. Leaving home to journey westward alone, she chased the sun to Utah. Over the years, she was consumed with skiing, climbing, kayaking, mountain biking and getting lost on back roads. But exploration continued to call. After closing her bakery — which funded college courses and adventure — she stored her possessions for three years and hit the road again, on a quest to reach the distant places of North America. Living in her car, she skied the backcountry of Alaska, slept under the northern lights in the Yukon Territory, ice climbed Colorado's frozen canyons and rock climbed across the continent, photographed Nova Scotia’s coves, backpacked in southern US wildernesses and munched on sugared tamarindo in the jungles of Mexico. Dual citizenship in hand, she has now settled along the Powder Highway in the Selkirks and is now making her home between four walls and deeply wooded mountains.
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