This Week’s Top Instagram Photos from the #AppalachianTrail

Time for some more of that sweet instagramy goodness to satiate your unquenchable hiker lust. If you’re sad you’re not out on the trail today just sit back and join the rest of the Internet as we live vicariously through our hiker trash brethren.

We peruse all of the wonderful pictures from Instagram with the hashtag #AppalachianTrail and #AppalachianTrials and select a few of the best each week to highlight for your viewing pleasure!

This week we take a look at photos snapped between 09/26/16 – 10/03/16.

If you would like your picture to be included, be sure to use the hashtag #AppalachianTrail and/or #AppalachianTrials (we give preference to this one). And follow Appalachian Trials on Instagram for even more AT love.

Goodbye summer, hello fall ?

A photo posted by Hikingmiles4smiles (@hikingmiles4smiles) on Oct 3, 2016 at 9:19am PDT

What a view. #katahdin #at2016 #backpacking #appalachiantrials #theendofallthings

A photo posted by Joseph C-Lark (@joec.lark) on Oct 2, 2016 at 8:11pm PDT

Beautiful Roan Highlands, don’t miss me too much; I’ll be back to see you soon.. ???? #roanhighlands #roanmountain #roan #appalachiantrail #appalachiantrials #booneview #whiteblaze #mountains #blueridge #blueridgemoments #clouds #trail #sectionhike #hike #backpacking #camping #wanderlust #tennessee #wnc #wncadvguide #nature #naturelovers #yellowflowers #explore #optoutside #appalachianmountains

A photo posted by Vanya Davis (@lana.skie) on Oct 1, 2016 at 12:01pm PDT

Too many awesome pictures from McAfee Knob to just post one. Enjoy! #appalachiantrail #appalachiantrials #nofilter #McAfeeKnob #virginia

A photo posted by Sarah Harley (@roanluver03) on Sep 30, 2016 at 11:38am PDT

There’s something undeniably independent about having your life on your back and a trail in front of you.

A photo posted by John Stephens??? (@thathiker) on Sep 27, 2016 at 6:09pm PDT

10/3: Some of the greatest people that I’ve ever met. I’m going to miss everyone and all of the crazy experiences that the Appalachian Trail has brought me, but this trail is just the beginning for my trail adventures. To being hiker trash for the past 6 1/2 months. To living in shelters, hostels, motels, and under the stars. To the snow storms, the rain storms, and the lightning storms. To the bears, the deer, the moose, the Bobcats, the porcupines, and the little critters. To drinking muddy beaver pond water as a last resort. To the mice and squirrels who battle us for our food at night. To making room for 12 in a shelter meant for 6. To eating food wherever we can find it. To not showering for weeks. To sweating, to bleeding, to crying. To our packs smelling worse than anything. To all of the hiker shoes we’ve killed this summer. To our own FEET and BACKS and LEGS that we killed this summer. To shenanigans, to camp fires, and to all the different reasons we’re all out here together. To 2.189.2 miles. To every step. To living the best life out here. #at2016#appalachiantrail2016#thruhike#thruhiker#womenwhohike#adventureheroes#hikertrash#hikingtrash#scenic#beautiful#nature#mountkatahdin#maine#hikemaine#rei#optoutside#appalachiantrials#georgiatomaine#love#blonde#hikersofinstagram#100milewilderness

A photo posted by ?TaylorRoseManson? (@at_khaleesi) on Oct 3, 2016 at 12:49pm PDT

Maine tried to keep us from leaving. #appalachaintrail #appalachiantrials

A photo posted by Rachel Young (@we_ryoung) on Oct 1, 2016 at 11:38am PDT

Sometimes the trail sucks. Other times you get cows and sunsets. #GraysonHighlands #appalachiantrail #appalachiantrials #soboordie #Sobo2016 #at2016 #at #hikertrash #reiproject1440 #optoutside #whitegurl

A photo posted by Jeremy Morris (WhiteGurl) (@jeremy.morriz) on Oct 1, 2016 at 8:55am PDT

Day 107 – 9.30.16 – 1,896.5m A situation which required no aid from the imagination to render it impressive. #appalachiantrail #appalachiantrials #AT #flipflop2016

A photo posted by Peter Van Alstyne (@pete.va) on Sep 30, 2016 at 4:00pm PDT

A grey-jay taking flight from the peak of Mount Moriah. New Hampshire, USA. September 2016.

A photo posted by Katie Corlett ? (@katecorlett) on Sep 30, 2016 at 10:32am PDT

Hide and seek in the Mahoosuc Notch. See the blaze to the left of @livewild_winston, he’s on the trail… September 2016.

A photo posted by KATIE ? LiveWild Explorer (@livewild_kate) on Sep 30, 2016 at 11:05am PDT

Froggy sees all, froggy knows all. #froglegs #bullfrog #froggy #wisdom #iseeyou #hikertrash #blessedAF #at2016 #appalachiantrail #appalachiantrials #thruhike #thruhiking #optoutside #letscamp

A photo posted by Jack oatmon (@jack_at_it) on Sep 28, 2016 at 8:09am PDT

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A photo posted by Sarah Bee (@at_rigby) on Sep 27, 2016 at 7:23pm PDT

I braved the elements to grab some shots of the milky way during a work for stay at Galehead hut. Managed to catch a shooting star too, look in the bottom middle just above treeline. We live in a beautiful and mysterious universe.

A photo posted by Jack Jones (Quadzilla) (@jackjoneshg) on Oct 3, 2016 at 4:29pm PDT

#atthruhike2016 #at2016 #appalachiantrail #theintentslife #nobo #appalachiantrials #whiteblaze

A photo posted by The*In*Tents*Life (@theintentslife) on Oct 3, 2016 at 6:25am PDT

Be sure to check back next week for more of that sweet, delicious #Appalachian Trail Instagram goodness!

And remember if you would like your picture to be included, be sure to use the hashtag #AppalachianTrail and/or #AppalachianTrials (we give preference to this one).  And follow Appalachian Trials on Instagram for even more AT love.