becoming odyssa adventures on the appalachian trail

She has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR's Talk of the Nation, and The Early Show on CBS. Jennifer has also written 2017's Families on Foot and 2018's The Pursuit of Endurance as well as 2019's 'I Come From a Place' with celebrated watercolorist Alan Shuptrine, from Chattanooga, Tennessee.Īs a member of the National Speakers Association, Pharr Davis has shared her trail lessons hundreds of times throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, including presentations to Fortune 500 companies, trade organizations, colleges and universities, K-12 schools, libraries, festivals, churches, and other non-profits. She has also written two memoirs- 2010's Becoming Odyssa, about her 2005 Appalachian Trail thru-hike, and 2013's Called Again, about her record setting A.T. She has written two guidebooks about hiking in the Charlotte, North Carolina area, and one about hiking near Asheville, North Carolina. Pharr Davis has written a number of books. New records have subsequently been set by Karl Meltzer, Joe McConaughy, and most recently Karel Sabbe. In 2015, Scott Jurek finished 3 hours and 12 minutes faster.

In 2011, Pharr Davis set the fastest known time on the Appalachian Trail completing it in 46 days, 11 hours and 20 minutes. She also established the fastest known time on the Bibbulmun Track in Western Australia in 2008. She had previously set the Long Trail trail record in 7 days and 15 hours in 2007. In 2008, she set the record for the fastest Appalachian Trail hike by a woman in 57 days and 8 hours at an average of 38 miles (61 km) per day.

To prepare for her initial hike, she attended a class taught by Warren Doyle at the Appalachian Trail Institute. She first hiked the Appalachian Trail in 2005 after graduating from Samford University. She attended Hendersonville High School (North Carolina) and the Asheville School. Pharr Davis lives in Asheville, North Carolina with her husband Brew, their daughter Charley, and son Gus. She has hiked over 14,000 miles on six different continents, including thru-hikes on the Pacific Crest Trail, the Appalachian Trail (three times), the Colorado Trail, the Long Trail in Vermont, the Bibbulmun Track in Australia, and numerous trails in Europe and South America (e.g., the Tour du Mont Blanc, West Highland Way, Laugavegur, GR 11 (Spain), GR 20, and the Pembrokeshire Coast Path, Cotahuasi Canyon and the Inca Trail.

She has been called 'the Serena Williams of long distance hiking' by Baratunde Thurston ( PBS America Outdoors) and is also an author, speaker, National Geographic Adventurer of the Year, and Ambassador for the American Hiking Society. Jennifer Pharr Davis is a long distance hiker from the United States of America who serves on the President's Council for Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Author, Speaker, Hiker, Founder and Owner of Blue Ridge Hiking Company (Asheville, NC)

Becoming odyssa adventures on the appalachian trail