Jill Pangman has 25 years of experience as a wilderness guide, outdoor educator, naturalist, and conservationist. Her passion is in exploring wild places and sharing these experiences with others. She recognizes the capacity of wilderness sojourns to rejuvenate and inspire, and to deepen our connection to the natural world as well as to ourselves. She expresses her own love of nature, and her commitment to the healing of our world through her guiding, parenting, writing, photography and conservation-oriented work. She has immense gratitude for the beauty of nature as well as the human spirit, and she finds that leading journeys into the wilderness is an ideal venue to share this appreciation.

    Jill is currently president of CPAWS-Yukon (the Yukon chapter of Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society), and is a long standing board member of WTAY (the Wilderness Tourism Association of the Yukon). She has found an outlet, through both these organizations, as well as through Sila Sojourns, to speak out on behalf of natural world, as she believes we all must increasingly do. She does this whether she is actively engaged in a protected areas campaign, or through sharing her insights, and laughter, with fellow wilderness travellers.