Jennifer Pharr Davis

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.

She has also written two memoirs- 2010's Becoming Odyssa, about her 2005 Appalachian Trail thru-hike,[2][7] and 2013's Called Again, about her record setting A.T. hike, both published by Beaufort Books.

Jennifer has also written 2017's Families on Foot[8] and 2018's The Pursuit of Endurance [9] as well as 2019's "I Come From a Place" with celebrated watercolorist Alan Shuptrine, from Chattanooga, Tennessee.

As 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.

In 2008, Pharr Davis founded Blue Ridge Hiking Company, with the belief that "the trail is there for everyone at every phase of life" and with the goal of getting people outdoors on their own terms.

In 2012, Pharr Davis hiked 600 miles on the Laugavegur Trail in Iceland and the GR 11 (Spain) across the Pyrenees in her second and third trimesters while pregnant with her daughter Charley.