Episode #103 - Jennifer Pharr Davis (Odyssa)
Mighty Blue On The Appalachian Trail: The Ultimate Mid-Life Crisis
Steve Adams
4.8 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Jennifer Pharr Davis is a woman on a mission. She wants to get people into the outdoors and, not only does she want to do it, she actually gets it done. Her Blue Ridge Hiking Company provides guided trips into the woods and over mountains, bringing many people who would never have considered going onto a trail before they came to her.
She has hiked over 14,000 miles of long-distance trails all over the world, including what was then the Fastest Known Time on the Appalachian Trail of 46 days, 11 hours, and 20 minutes. She has been the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year and written five books. Between this frenzy of activity, she also finds time to be a wife and a mother.
As you'd imagine, Jennifer is everywhere, so connect with her on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/jenpharrdavis/?hl=en, or learn about her guided hikes at http://www.blueridgehikingco.com/.
She tweets at https://twitter.com/jenpharrdavis?lang=en and https://twitter.com/blueridgehiking, while you can find her on Facebook at both https://www.facebook.com/jennifer.p.davis.3/ and https://www.facebook.com/blueridgehikingco/?ref=hl.
If you'd like to see a short YouTube video about her new book, The Pursuit of Endurance, click here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-g9kyzWP6o
From the Outdoor Retailer Show in Denver, this week's guests were Douglas Ruchevsky of Case Knives. Douglas showed me several camping knives, including the Kickstart Knife and the Southern Grind. You can find these at https://caseknives.com/Â
Matt Fitzgerald of Cauldryn showed me his "Swiss Army Knife of Travel Mugs," an impressive device that controls the temperature of your coffee through your Bluetooth-enabled phone, as well as performing a bunch of other tasks. See what Matt was talking about at https://cauldryn.com/
Claire Kooperman very kindly gave me a pair of Injinji toe socks. These turned out to be exceptionally comfortable. You can find more about these at https://www.injinji.com/
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Hiking Radio Network, where we talk the walk with shows by hikers |
| 0:05.2 | about hikers for everybody. |
| 0:17.4 | Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, the ultimate midlife crisis, joins Stephen his guests every week as he staggers from Georgia to Maine. |
| 0:33.1 | Hi, and as always, thanks so much for joining me on Mighty Blue on the Appalachian Trail, sponsored by absolutely nobody. |
| 0:40.7 | Yet, I'm talking to one or two companies but nothing to report so far. |
| 0:44.7 | As I said last week, let me know if you have any good ideas. |
| 0:48.1 | This week we have one of the more well-known hikers in America, Jennifer Farr Davis. |
| 0:52.8 | Jennifer is hugely experienced, gives back to the |
| 0:55.8 | trail and frankly a dream to interview. I was kind of a bystander as she expounded upon |
| 1:00.8 | everything to do with hiking. Jennifer will be long shortly. We also have three more interviews |
| 1:06.0 | from the outdoor retailers' summer market in Denver with knives, mugs and socks to talk about today. |
| 1:13.8 | I'm not adding in another section this week because I'm trying to get the show back down to |
| 1:17.5 | just over an hour. The last few shows have been about an hour and a half and to be honest, |
| 1:21.9 | it's a bit too much for me to put together on a Wednesday. An hour seems much more manageable. |
| 1:27.2 | Of course, we'll have another |
| 1:28.2 | slice of the year we seize the day by Elizabeth Best and Colin Bowles. This week, we're up to |
| 1:33.2 | the first part of day 12, and Colin is back to his bleeping self. Just the once this time, |
| 1:39.3 | though. So, let's meet Jennifer Farr Davis. |
| 1:47.9 | Right. |
| 1:52.8 | Now, some of you may remember way back in, I think episode number 25 or 26, I introduced hiking royalty, Miss Janet. |
| 1:55.3 | And we've got another version of hiking royalty today, Jennifer Farr Davis. |
| 1:59.1 | Hi, Jennifer. |
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