Nicole Klopovic

Nicole Klopovic discovered her passion for outdoor activities as a child, when her father, Jim, would take her and her sister on nature excursions around their home in North Carolina. She is an avid backpacker whose experiences include hiking above 15,000 feet to Laguna 69 in Peru’s Cordillera Blanca mountain range. Her plans for future trips include hiking the Appalachian Trail

and her ancestral homelands, Croatia and Australia, with her father. She lives and works as a certified physician assistant in Sacramento, California.