![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() in 2011 she started a successful guiding service (Blue Ridge Hiking Company) in her native Western North Carolina, and had a role in this year’s IMAX film Into America’s Wild but most importantly to her, she’s used her platform to encourage women not just on long distance trails but in the male-dominated outdoor industry as a whole. She’s been an Appalachian Trail Conservancy board member and an ambassador for the American Hiking Society she set the FKT (fastest known time) on the A.T. Or maybe more accurately, she’s worn many different pairs of walking shoes. Pharr Davis has worn many hats since becoming “Odyssa” (her Trail name in ‘05). in ‘05, fresh out of college with next to no experience in the woods, let alone on a 2,000-mile footpath. That’s how Jennifer Pharr Davis begins the 10th Anniversary Edition of Becoming Odyssa: Adventures on the Appalachian Trail - with a new chapter entitled “Gratitude,” reflecting on how far the author has come since thru-hiking the A.T. It’s about the transformative properties of spending time in nature.” This book matters - it resonates with people - because it isn’t really about me. But in a way, all the things I would want to change about myself in Becoming Odyssa are the same reasons why this book matters. “In many ways, I have spent the past fifteen years trying to outgrow the naïve character that fills the pages of this book - you know, the one with her unfiltered judgments (and water), inexperienced skill set, and limited world view. ![]()
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