Jennifer Provencal, a mother of three sons, has lived in the small unincorporated community of Forest Grove, just off Highway 97 near 100 Mile House, for almost two decades.

An American woman who hiked a combined 5,700 kilometres through the U.S. and Canada over five months had an unlikely source of help right at the end of her trip — a group of B.C. snowmobilers holed up ...