For most people who take a trek into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the experience is life-enriching. But for some, like Kate Severson, it’s life-altering.
When the Rochester, Minn., native graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2009 with a bachelor’s degree in English and Japanese studies, a career working in the great outdoors wasn’t even on her radar as she left home to spend two years teaching English as a second language in a rural village in Hokkaido, Japan.
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