Amanda is an outdoor educator, travel writer, outdoor advocate, and thru-hiker. She has thru-hiked the Colorado Trail, Pacific Crest Trail and half of the Grand Enchantment Trail. Amanda has also traveled the United States as a speaker and presenter at various outdoor festivals as a Subaru Leave No Trace Master Trainer. In this episode, we discuss Amanda’s definition of thru-hiking, her root story, healing via thru-hiking, her contentious relationship to change, the creation of Brown Girl on the National Scenic Trail and so much more!

Show notes

Follow Amanda at:

IG: @browngirlonthenst

Blog: Brown Girl on the NST 

Amanda’s Writings for Backpack Magazine

Backpacker author page and a piece about Amanda

Modern Hiker Interview

https://modernhiker.com/trailblazers-amanda-jameson/

Other Recommendations from Amanda . . .

Decolonizing Travel

Bani Amor (They/Them) on decolonizing travel culture. Follow them on

IG: baniamor

Books

Charlene Caruthers, Unapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements

James Baldwin, The First Next Time

Documentary: I Am Not Your Negro

Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower

Octavia Butler, Kindred

Saudade: The Portuguese word for the sweet melacholy of a moment that will never be again.

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