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.
