"It was a low snow year in the San Juans"

This artifact by Jessica "Dixie" Mills, who has an Instagram account called @homemadewanderlust where she documents her backpacking expeditions, shows the author's friend hiking in the snow. This photo in particular comes from a series of posts that trace her time hiking the Continental Divide Trail. In the photo, Mills captures a moment where her expedition partner is snowshoeing on a hillside, and she has edited the photo with a black-and-white filter. The post also has a caption from Mills about the low snowfall in the mountains, and there are additional comments from her followers.

Jessica "Dixie" Mills, @homemadewanderlust

Jessica "Dixie" Mills

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Jessica "Dixie" Mills

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2000-2024

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<bold> homemadewanderlust <bold> <three snowflake emojis>
It was a low snow year in the San Juans,
but the part I got to see still had SOME
snow!
<blue> #cdt2018 #dontfallaaron #sanjuans
#thruhiking #riograndenationalforest
#snow <blue>

The black-and-white photo shows the author's expedition partner traversing a snow-packed hillside. The hill extends about halfway up the photo before it meets the ridge line and distant horizon. The photo gets shaded darker in the farther part of the horizon.

Linguistic: <bold> homemadewanderlust <bold> <blue> Follow <blue>
<bold> ellasweeney <bold> woah!!!!! go dixie!!!
<bold> diamondam8788 <bold> It's so hot an dry here in
the Gila would love some of that snow right
now
<bold> hartman5723 <bold> Looks like it's MIO snow
JUNE 21
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Travis Burhart
11/22/18