> I often wonder whether the opportunity to stage your “life” in a beautiful place for social media is a part of why so many more people head into the woods I

> I often wonder whether the opportunity to stage your “life” in a beautiful place for social media is a part of why so many more people head into the woods I think so. For me and my friends, we’re not “staging our life”, but a lot of times I’ll see someone post a photo of a trail on Instagram or Strava and I’ll comment asking where it is. We still went out 10 years ago. We still took photos 10 years ago. But now it’s SO much easier to share what the different trails look like and it’s possible to share the exact GPX tracks with each other. It’s a wonderful time to be wandering around in the woods and if someone just got into the hobby yesterday and wants to post the beauty of their quarter mile “hike” more power to them.