Photos of Others

This artifact photographs two of Mill's friends hiking in the high plains of Wyoming with a caption updating the audience on her progress through the Continental Divide Trail.

Mills's Instagram posts photographs her expedition partner traversing a snow-packed hillside in the San Juan mountains with a caption about the terrain's conditions.

These artifacts come from Jessica "Dixie" Mills Instagram account at @homemadewanderlust, and they belong to a series of posts about her experience hiking the entire Continental Divide Trail.

Part of her posts in this series of photos update her followers on general day-to-day instances on the trail. Many of the pictures she takes of her expedition team showcase these updates. Whether it is the weather conditions or entering a new state, her pictures of her team navigating these places provide an understanding of their current conditions. The visuals enhance this by capturing these circumstances and making it easier for her Instagram community to imagine what life on the trail is like. Seeing images of hikers trekking through snow or exiting a desert provide greater perception to her captions.