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afazendaicons · 4 years

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Like ou créditos no twitter @realityzinhah

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liamzzzverse · 2 years

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𝐋𝐮𝐜𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐫𝐨 ||| LUCA 𖧷༄

#cute #fashion #icon #photographers on tumblr #anime icon #photography #sweet #anime #cartoon #selfie #luca #luca paguro #alberto #giulia #animated movie #pixar #disney

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lucasicons · 4 years

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LUCAS + KUN MATCHING ICONS

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hilaryar2004 · 5 years

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Lucas posted

And I thought it would be a good idea to just-

Ok but he look kinda good in the last two pics hold on-

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nct-lian · 3 years

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wayv’s relation to lian

KUN + LIAN: LUN

they have the cutest little interactions ever :(

was one of the members that kun was most comfortable around at first

she made him feel so welcomed!

when nct 2018 appeared on weekly idol, lian was placed in the front

but she moved her chair over to kun’s side to be closer to him !!!!!!!

lun stans found dead

they go out to eat food together a lot :D

now that lian doesn’t feel the need to look over him anymore, he stepped in and is now a very good parental figure for her

he bought her an expensive ass ring for her birthday

him and johnny both being her dad: 🤝

kun has been arguing back and forth with chenle about lian’s chinese name

he loves the name xiuying for her :(

they hype each other up all the time !!

lian and kun had the best time with each other when filming from home

we got so many adorable clips of them :DDDD

when talking to each other they can’t pick a solid language

like they’re always switching between mandarin and korean

they also slip in a bit of english at times as well

TEN + LIAN: LITEN

if kun is her dad then ten is her cool uncle

he lets her do whatever she wants

like he will just sit and watch as she teases the fUCK out of hyuck

HES TEACHING HER THAI

just like kun they switch between multiple languages in a conversation

they normally speak english with each other!

their fashion game is always on point.

no actually they literally wore matching shirts one time

liten supremacy breaking the internet: <3

ten once said “guys she’s like my daughter stop being weird~~~!” on vlive when people kept asking if him and lian were dating

as he should !

they mention each other ¿ everywhere ?

THEY DANCE TOGETHER ALL THE TIME

ten even helped her choreograph the new ver. of yoncé

don’t touch me i’m soft

no because ten ships her with someone in the group … just not who you’d think ;)

i swear he’s her #1 hypeman

ten was actually the one who made their ship name- goals asf sry i don’t make the rules

WINWIN + LIAN: LIWIN

lian is yet another member of nct who will sacrifice her soul to the devil for winwin

“winwin winwin winwin winwin is on the mind forever and always i love you winwin” was what she posted for his birthday

AND THE FEELING IS MUTUAL

winwin loves her just as much and he shows it

he likes hugging her DDDDD:

also ten ships them

so that’s that uh :p

lian cried so hard when he had to pause promotions with 127 :(

especially because they were super close!

winwin was actually another one of her first friends in nct because she was fluent in mandarin

and they were both super comfortable speaking with each other :)

winwin: i like lian the most :D

yuta + taeil: am i a joke to you?

no cause yuta is constantly losing in this thing

lian picks winwin and winwin picks lian what is happening

winwin’s current lockscreen is a picture of lian rolling her eyes at yangyang

yup yup their lockscreen tradition LISTEN AND WEEP

winwin’s selfies are lian’s favourite thing :)

LUCAS + LIAN: LULIAN

omfg the chaos these two bring

i’m crying because nct 2018 was chaotic in itself but lulian was something else

THEY WERE ALWAYS SCREAMING ????

taeyong was going through an existential crisis the entirety of 2018

AND BYE LUCAS WILL NOT STOP COMPARING THEIR HAND SIZES

leave it in 2018 sweetheart we been knew lian is the size of a jellybean

he had her react to his drama where he dances to replay after killing his girlfriend

lian confirmed it was 10/10 and would recommend watching

she genuinely thinks lucas should have been added to nct dream and she stands by that opinion daily

the MOMENTS we got during nct world 2.0 were chefs kiss

they were both so chaotic while mark was frying eggs

“MARK WHAT ARE YOU DOING (⊹つ•۝•⊹)つ”

the oldest + youngest in the 99’ line remain iconic

lian hates him but loves him at the same time

because he’s nice to her but he SPENDS TOO MUCH OF HIS TIME MAKING FUN OF HER HEIGHT

“lian you’re like literally two feet tall i could fit you in my pocket”

“i will drop kick you in 2.5 seconds if you don’t shut the fuck up wong yukhei”

lucas once said that their favourite thing to do together was play at playgrounds

XIAOJUN + LIAN: XIAN

what you’ve all been waiting for

xiaojun went so long thinking that lian was chinese (∩╹□╹∩)

like she speaks mandarin perfectly, has a chinese stage name

IT WAS A REASONABLE MISTAKE LET HIM LIVE

when they met the first thing he said to her was how pretty she was

“y-you’re so pretty uhh”

*cue distressed xiaojun*

he followed lian on instagram before nct 2020 was even confirmed

dedication

he didn’t know jaehyun or yuta liked her and accidentally patted her head in front of them and called her cute

AND THAT WAS RHE DAY BEFORE THE WHOLE “xiaojun is terrified of yuta” THING HAPPENED

PLEASEHANDHJEJSB

they’d like to do a duet someday :)

he couldn’t get her lyrics from kick it out of his head when he first listened to the song

sometimes still quotes them around her to make her laugh

lian hyped his drama up SO MUCH !1!1!1!€]£<]~\£>€{

“dejunnie is having an acting debut soon !! please go support him and his cast~”

xiaojun brags about that a lot ... and her nickname for him :)

HENDERY + LIAN: LIANDERY

the teasing

THE MF TEASINF THEYRE SO ANNOYING

besties ™

they would occasionally message each other before and they considered themselves to be pretty close but when nct 2020 happened they were chaos

especially when they ended up in the work it unit together

everyone was so sick of them like they would not shut up about random ass things

hendery and lian are like another version of haechan and lian

but minus the lovey stuff they sometimes do

with liandery it’s constant teasing and making fun of each other 24/7

and it’s all fun and games so they can go DOWN if they’d like to

lian roasted him so hard once bye

they were supposed to be a pair on “it’s awkward but it’s ok”

but they developed such a good friendship within like two weeks that they had to switch up the members

hendery is kinda soft for her though ngl

he’ll just randomly poke her dimples

BUT HE WONT LIE AND SAY HE WASNT INTIMIDATED BY HER AT FIRST

it was just the way she presented herself at that time because she was a little frustrated, but it wasn’t anything that wouldn’t change later on

hendery thought she was older than him by like three years rip

YANGYANG + LIAN: YANGLIAN

when lian met yangyang she gained another child

but yangyang’s not a baby anymore (҂⌣̀_⌣́)

yet he’ll 100% act cute so that she does stuff for him

she’s not complaining though anything for her son

they’re like yangyang and ten all over again

once had a whole ass conversation through memes

it started with spongebob ended with shrek

lian now knows how to introduce herself in german thank you yangyang

not lian teaching yangyang toronto slang :’)

yangayng for some reason gave her big haechan energy when they first met

because the first thing he did was mock her height

he literally bent down and said “can you see me better”

lian: hello i saw you perfectly fine before my neck isn’t broken sir

but it was okay because now they have a really playful relationship with each other :D

have teamed up on numerous occasions to make kun’s life harder

“i thought the chaos stopped with yangyang, lian when did you become such a problem child?”

but lian gets special treatment because well .. she’s lian what do you think

yangyang calls her lili :)

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violettsea · 4 years

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m.list - phone

hi everyone! i hope this can help you guys navigate my blog better!

these are wallpapers/lockscreens for your phone (iphone or android. some of the wallpapers can work on desktop too if the background is one colour)

i mostly do wallpapers/lockscreens for BTS, Ateez, NCT, and WayV but i'm super open to other groups so request away :)

last edited: 19.12.20

Group ↴

Maknae Line Details

Boyfriend Film Aesthetic

Map of the Soul 7 Playlist Wallpaper

Stay Gold pt 1

Stay Gold pt 2

Dynamite Film Aesthetic

BTS BE Concept Photo Wallpaper

RM ↴

Art Gallery Vibes - frame edit

Jungkook ↴

Icons Wallpaper

Birthday Wallpaper

Group ↴

ALL Fever Comeback Wallpapers

Boyfriend Lockscreens pt 1

Boyfriend Lockscreens pt 2

Song Lyrics Edit

Playlist Aesthetic

IG Layout

Yeosang ↴

Birthday Wallpaper

San ↴

Birthday Wallpaper

Mingi ↴

Icons Wallpaper

Wooyoung ↴

Icons Wallpaper

Group ↴

NCT 2020 - Plane Ticket Wallpaper pt 1

NCT 127 - Markhyuck

NCT Dream - Puzzle Piece Wallpaper

NCT U - Make a Wish Frame Aesthetic

Taeyong ↴

Birthday Wallpaper

Johnny ↴

Boyfriend - frame edit

Doyoung ↴

Icons Wallpaper

Jaehyun ↴

Icons Wallpaper

Mark ↴

Simple Boyfriend

Renjun ↴

Boyfriend - frame edit

Jaemin ↴

Birthday Wallpaper

Group ↴

Lucas + Winwin Icon

Lucas ↴

Scrap Book - boyfriend edit

Xiaojun ↴

Boyfriend - frame edit

MISC wallpapers

Hendery ↴

Boyfriend Selfie edit - special guest: Louis

Blackpink ↴

How You Like That MV Wallpaper

Rosé Girlfriend - frame edit

Seventeen ↴

Minghao Boyfriend Aesthetic

Monsta X ↴

Changkyun Boyfriend aesthetic

EXO - SC ↴

1 Billion Views Messy Aesthetic

K-rnb - Film Edit

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editsslove · 3 years

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icons; lucas selfie.

#lucas selfie

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incantavaxx · 4 years

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Hellooo do you think you could rank the Eskilds?

Hey sorry for the late answer anon 💕 I'll do only my top 3 since I don't really have a strong opinion on the others (apart from Mika who is still on probation for kicking Lucas out of his room for Manon, never forget never forgive)

1. Filippo (A sassy icon. Would fuck Elia Santini immediately. Will eat sushi on the couch in his underwear. Will pretend to be in mortal danger just to make you hurry and take selfies in the meantime. Rocks pink hair. "Water only if my room is on fire." Will give you advise but only if you re-enact Titanic with him first. You can tell which season it is by his hair color. Will scream OOOOOH when the song asks everyone who's hot and blonde to scream OOOOOH. Weapons of choice: powerful eyeroll, powerful sarcasm, powerful crush on Elia Santini.)

2. Milan (A soft icon. Proud funder of the flat family. Love counselor. Available for FaceTime sessions even during lockdown - discounted prices if you're a William in need (enter code GAYGURU at checkout). Has arms and he's not scared to use them - to hug. Owner of the best and actually only Eskild/William bromance to date. Weapons of choice: he knows the law and knows he's not supposed to bond with some characters but canon is not his real mother and so he bonds anyway. King of bonding.)

3. Eve (A lesbian icon. Funnier than you and she knows it. Only female Eskild to date. Will fuck hot girls and support her cousin. Will do all that while having great hair too. Will walk in a room and instantly be the cooler person in it. Lowkey will recognize her Isak when they're introduced. Would kick asses if given the opportunity to fully embrace her Eskild role with a Shay's season. Weapons of choice: sarcasm, unrealistic giant eyes, strong potential.)

#Skam italia #Wtfock #Skam austin #Skam remakes

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feeshies · 4 years

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twitter headcanons

aminah: icon is a selfie, but she changes it frequently. spams emojis. most of her tweets are her trying to get the attention of her favorite celebrities and/or promoting her other social media platforms. she is not above sending harry styles her tik toks. feels the need to tweet out all of her thoughts regardless of engagement.

luca: icon is either a random picture he found on the internet (that captures his vibe) or a deliberately unflattering selfie. feels uncomfortable with people he sees on a daily basis being able to read his tweets, so he rarely tweets in english. his romani tweets are super long threads where he discusses issues that are on his mind. his english tweets are just the surreal memes he makes in his spare time.

joyce: icon is a picture of her, but cropped just to show the rat she’s holding. posts “rat facts” and will sometimes make tweets where she pretends to be one of her pet rats. forever frustrated that her normal selfies get more attention than her rat content. no capital letters, only posts after midnight. the only one in aminah’s mentions.

sorrel: has 2 twitter accounts. one is her “face” account, where the icon is a professional headshot done of her and she includes ph.d in her name. on this account, she mostly posts chemistry facts as well as delving into current events. she’s snarky, but professional. her other account has a placeholder icon and it’s where she drunkenly livetweets dating shows and gets involved in petty drama. after a while, the tweets cease to be in english. she has yet to mix these two accounts up.

david: icon is a normal picture of him. most of his tweets are about his kids and selfcare. posts a lot of cooking videos. doesn’t spend a lot of time on twitter because he thinks the environment is too toxic, so he does what he can to brighten other people’s days before leaving. the only one worthy of knowing about sorrel’s other account.

#circle up #oc: aminah #oc: david #oc: joyce #oc: sorrel #oc: luca

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killherfreakout · 4 years

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lola lecomte ❣️

@nooraevas asked: lucas for the character thing!! or if you got him already then lola fkjdsk

favorite thing about them:

she is so caring, even when it feels like the world is against her, and she should put herself first but she always thinks of others :(

least favorite thing about them:

her tendency to push people away when they want to help, but she is growing to accept the help she needs and we love that for her!!

favorite line:

‘then forget’ to daphné about forgetting they have different dads 🥺 sisterssss💞

brOTP:

honestly lola and basile!!!!!

OTP:

her GIRLFRIEND maya!!! her purple-haired vegan environmentalist fashion icon lesbian girlfriend!!!! they’re gonna save the whales n get married 💜

nOTP:

aymeric 😠

random headcanon:

she loves romantic comedies and grows to love the obscure indies that eliott recommends but she won’t tell him she does 😌

unpopular opinion:

i connected to her right away, and i never thought i could love and relate to an original character (in MY skamfr???) and even though she made mistakes/poor choices i completely understood why she did what she did

song i associate with them:

‘older than i am’ AND ‘since i was a kid’ by lennon stella!!!! @ gif makers PLEASE make a set with the lyrics to these i will be forever grateful 🤲🥺

favorite picture of them:

i’m still waiting on a mayla selfie or smth but this one :’)

send me a character!

#thank u both! ❣️#this is the last one in my inbox but u can send more if u want :)#ask game #character asks #nooraevas #kit tag #long post

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lucasseliott · 5 years

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People taking selfies in front of Lucas and Eliott's sex wall? Iconic.

#skam #skamfr #skam france

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l000ey · 5 years

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ships in other labels → a.l

𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐧 = 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐤

The relationship between GOT7 and BTS is iconic, how can we forget that Namjoon never responds to Jackson? precisely thanks to RM she met the members of GOT7 and although it would have been more predictable that she had a good relationship with Jaebum since they are similar in personality or with Jackson himself or maybe the maknaes she went for Mark. for some reason she and the oldest of JYP's group fit perfectly. You can often see them going to places together since they love to go out together, they have even gone on vacation together with their families more than once, because Bella's father and Mark's father get along great. Both the aghases and the armys love this friendship and cannot help talking about it as if it were something else since there are several rumors that they have been in a relationship for years.

𝐥𝐞𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐦𝐢 = 𝐬𝐮𝐧𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐨𝐫 𝟐𝐥𝐞𝐞

Everyone knows that storm is bisexual and she doesn't mind showing it so she doesn't mind watching girls or flirting with them in public. Since she met Sunmi she has always found her attractive, she has invited her out several times when they met but quickly realized their relationship was destined to be only one of friends and not a couple, they are currently best friends.

𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐮𝐤𝐡𝐞𝐢 𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐬 = 𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐮𝐤 𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐠

She had seen Lucas several times when she visited the SM building to see Kibum but she didn't know him until she made a collaboration with Taeyong. All NCT was there, according to them "bothering their leader" but in reality it was to meet her and obviously there was Lucas. The boy was one of the most excited to meet her and thanks to his insistence he was able to receive her phone number and even a selfie that Storm later published in her own instagram.

𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐡𝐰𝐚 = 𝐬𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐠

Since it was discovered that ATEEZ are fans of BTS and that the eldest of the group has her as bias twitter and even her instagram are full of messages from fans about the rookie asking her to notice and send him a message. After a while receiving the messages Arabella decided to contact the ATEEZ’s manager to meet them, since then she has a friendship with the boy and his groupmates whom she loves since she finds them very talented and adorable.

𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐚��𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐫 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐬 = 𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐨𝐫

Bella doesn't even remember when she met Venus, I think she meet her when Mark invited her to dinner with them and Venus was there. They both became friends right away as they share various tastes and they both know what it's like to deal with GOT7. Although Arabella does not get along with the same gender as far as a friendship is concerned with Daesoul is different, they are not best friends but Mamamoo's rapper was the first girl she had a friendship with so she is very grateful for her.

𝐤𝐢𝐦 𝐤𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐫 𝐤𝐞𝐲 = 𝐤𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐦

Obviously she met Kibum thanks to Minho who she met thanks to taehyung when he acted in hwarang. Arabella loves Key and his sarcasm, besides being a Shinee fan. Kibum may not occupy the position of her best friend but definitely Arabella is his best friend since she has supported him in his most difficult moments such as Jonghyung's death.

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lucasicons · 4 years

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LUCAS SELFIES ICONS

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#nct icons #wayv icons #superm icons #lucas icons #yukhei icons #xuxi icons #icons #wong yukhei #selfie #huang xuxi #superm #nct #nct lucas #wayv #yukhei

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jebentnietalleen · 5 years

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Do you think we’d get a kiss on the cheek insta post and the “before or after?” post because that was ICONIC SHIT and I’d pay for them to do that 👀👀 or do you think they have something else planned in place of those?

I would loooove that, but do you know what I think? We will get a couple selfie with the caption: ‘living my best life’, to mirror Lucas’ first instagram post this season. But if they decide to post ALL of these, I am also not complaining tbh

#skam france

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carpentus · 7 years

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⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀•like if u use ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀or cred to @carpentus

#sabrina carpenter icon #sabrina carpenter icons #sabrina carpenter pack #sabrina carpenter #twitter icon #twitter icons #icon twitter #twitter pack #site model #mirror #selfie #mirror selfies #maya hart #riley mathews #girl meets world #music #cute #lucas friar #corey fogelmanis

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pcttrailsidereader · 5 years

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How an App Made Hiking Easier (perhaps too easy)

An excerpt from Taylor Gee’s article in The Guardian examining the unintended consequences of Guthook Guides’ maps that have made outdoor adventures far less wild. I must admit being old school myself and even feel sometimes that all of the information on Halfmile’s maps makes me feel a bit lazy. Guthook Guides’ seems, at times, to remove the mystery from the trail. What’s your reaction to Gee’s critique?

In March 2012, the Pacific Crest Trail changed for good when Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild, about her 1995 thru-hike of the trail, hit shelves and quickly became a New York Times bestseller. [Between the book and the movie] from 2013 to 2018, PCT applications nearly quadrupled.

But Wild wasn’t the only thing that transformed the trail that March. The same month, a thru-hiker named Ryan Linn quietly released an iPhone application called Guthook Guides. It took the entire set of tools needed for thru-hiking – a map, compass, guidebook and water reports – and consolidated them into a single virtual location. It functioned offline and crowdsourced updated information about trail conditions and campsites when online. Such an app might have been inevitable, but for ultralight-obsessed thru-hikers, it was a revolution.

Linn’s timing couldn’t have been more perfect. In the last three years, the app has been downloaded 337,000 times, and in 2018, a survey of 500 PCT hikers found that 85% used the app. What started in 2010 as a passion project is now a company that employs five people full-time and has mapped more than two dozen long trails around the world.

But as the the app’s empire continues to grow, many thru-hikers worry about its unintended consequences. They see themselves and fellow hikers depending on their phones to decide where to sleep and eat and to discover exactly how far, down to the tenth of a mile, they are from those places. They fear that American thru-hiking, once the ultimate test of self-reliance, is no longer as wild as it once was.

While attending Vassar College in 2002, Linn joined an outdoors club. The upperclassmen decided that the new recruits needed intimidating nicknames. One day, Linn and two other club members were driving past a hunting and fishing store and pulled over to wander the aisles for inspiration. Linn became “Guthook”, and it stuck through college and afterward, when he hiked the AT in 2007 and the PCT in 2010.

It was while hiking the PCT that Linn met Paul Bodnar, a guidebook author who was collecting GPS data on trail with the intent of updating a PCT guide he had published in 2009. In the era of “there should be an app for that”, it didn’t take long for the two to start talking about what a smartphone-based guide would look like. “We figured it would be something for us to do on the side, in between seasonal work,” says Linn, who since college had been doing various trail-crew and outdoor-education jobs.

After they finished their hike, Linn spent the next year and a half using the GPS data Bodnar had collected to create the first version of Guthook Guides, learning to code as he went. Visually, the app looks similar to the paper topographical maps hikers have used for decades. Virtual icons along the trail designate campsites, water sources, intersecting roads, and trail-town information. But unlike paper maps, Guthook Guides is GPS-enabled, and users can click on an icon to learn more or add a comment. The ability to leave comments, in particular, made Guthook Guides more than a guidebook. Hikers could tell other users whether a water source had gone dry, the quality of a campsite, and the friendliness of local businesses.

After the 2012 release, the app made just enough money for Linn to pay a friend to collect data while hiking the AT in 2013. (The app is free to download, but users must purchase guides for each trail.) The AT guide was released the next year. In 2015, Guthook Guides became available on Android phones. By then, Linn and Bodnar, the app’s co-creators, understood that Guthook Guides was no longer a side project. They went all in.

A sense of surviving in the wilderness is a major reason why a 2,000-mile hike is more than just a feat of athleticism. Taking a wrong turn, getting lost, navigating back – all that misadventure and the intellectual challenge of sorting it out makes for better stories than does walking in a straight line dictated by an app. Yet thru-hiking the PCT last year, I had to stop myself from checking the Guthook app as often as every hour. At one point, my hiking partner even instituted a no-Guthook rule, with the hope that we’d reclaim some sense of agency over our endeavor. Our self-imposed app ban didn’t last, because pretending we didn’t have this all-knowing resource in our pockets felt somehow inauthentic. Especially when most everyone else on trail was embracing it as reality.

It’s hard to overstate the impact that Guthook has had on the experience of thru-hiking. I talked to nearly a dozen hikers and trail managers who all seemed simultaneously concerned that the app enables hikers to lose self-reliance and awareness of their surroundings but couldn’t deny its supreme usefulness.

[PCT hiker Eric] Lee compares the impact of Guthook Guides to what Google Maps has done for driving. “We no longer have to think about landmarks and turns and street names. We just type our address into the phone and press go,” he says, noting that it undoubtedly makes thru-hiking an easier, more stress-free experience. But because of the app, he sees more hikers today who are not as viscerally connected to the trail. “They’re walking from waypoint to waypoint. It’s just a set of numbers.”

This effect has led to some pushback against the app. “I’ve encouraged people to not use it,” says Lucas Weaver, a 29-year-old fiber-optic technician who used Guthook Guides while hiking the Continental Divide Trail last year. “I’m not saying don’t get it, I’m saying don’t let it dictate, don’t rely on it.” Weaver is glad he hadn’t yet downloaded the app when he hiked the AT in 2015. “Being out there without any guide or technology makes it more adventurous,” he says.

The app’s popularity has coincided with the use of phones creeping into trails more generally. Now hikers have Instagram accounts to update with selfies, blogs to write, and loved ones to keep in touch with.

Sometimes use of the app enters into the absurd. “We came across many hikers who would use the app to the point they would lose common sense,” says Jen Nicholson, a 29-year-old physical therapist who also thru-hiked the Continental Divide Trail last year. She recalls hikers who insisted on walking five feet off to the side of the trail because their GPS told them that’s where the path was.

Then there are the stories of hikers relying on trail apps who lose or break their phones or even just run out of battery. For those who forgo paper backup maps to save weight (I was guilty of this myself), a dead phone makes getting lost more frightening than thrilling. Rachel Brown, membership-services manager for the Continental Divide Trail Coalition, recalls encountering this multiple times when hiking the trail in 2015. A friend of hers lost her phone, spent hours searching for it, didn’t find it, and had no backup maps. “She ended up camping out at a really confusing trail junction for three days until somebody else came,” Brown says. Another time, Brown hiked with a man who dropped his phone into a creek. “He ended up sticking like glue to my partner and me,” she recalls. “It was a little frustrating for us, because it kind of felt like we were babysitting. He was always there.”

Perhaps most telling is Guthook’s own experience. Last summer on a backpacking trip, Linn found he had drifted off of a poorly marked trail. “I stopped, and I was about to grab my phone,” says Linn. “Now I have to really consciously tell myself, ‘No, no, no. You just noticed you’re off the trail, go and find it.’” Linn is thoughtful about how his app has affected life on trails. “There are downsides to every new technology in the wilderness,” he admits. “Probably people are using Guthook a little more than I would have wanted.”

For all the good and the bad attributable to Guthook Guides, the consensus is things are just different now. In 2003, Eric Lee accidentally turned off the PCT and hours later ran into another hiker who told him he was going the wrong way. Lee didn’t believe him. “We brought out paper maps and discussed it for 15 minutes” before the other hiker convinced Lee of the truth. Back then that was part of the experience, and maybe even charm, of the trail. “Today that would never happen,” says Lee. “But I’m OK with that.”

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