Documenting Backpacking through Instagram

These artifacts come from Jessica "Dixie" Mills Instagram at @homemadewanderlust. Mills is an avid wilderness backpacker and uses her Instagram to document her travel experiences to share with her community.

As she embarks on different backpacking expeditions, she develops "series" of posts that illustrate her trips through both photography and written captions. This exhibit focuses on her series of photos on through-hiking the Continental Divide Trail. While she shares a variety of content with her followers, many of her posts categorize into photos of her expedition team, photos of herself, landscape photography, and macrophotography. Utilizing different visuals helps enhance her written captions by portraying the sensations she felt while hiking the trail, and this exhibit describes these methods in more detail.