HIKER TRASH
Book Project + Exhibition


2017 - 2020


HIKER TRASH: Notes, Sketches and Other Detritus from the Appalachian Trail (Mountaineers Books, 2019) is a collage of long distance backpacking culture, offering a glimpse of an off-beat community through a collection of illustrations of trail shelters, photographs by Nicholas Reichard, and excerpts from hiker shelter logs collected from the archives of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club. Drawings from this project have been shown in Philadelphia at Paradigm Gallery, Land Collective, and the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education.  






Davenport Shelter, Tennessee (35.7693, -83.1234), 2017. Pen and ink, silver leaf




Trimpi Shelter, Virginia, (36.74939, -81.48041), 2018. Pen and ink, acrylic wash






Tricorner Knob Shelter, North Carolina, (35.69375, -83.25653), 2017. Pen and ink, silver leaf
Spaulding Mountain Lean-To, Maine, (44.99577, -70.34134), 2017. Pen and ink, acrylic wash






Ridgeline camp, somewhere in North Carolina, 2017. Pen and ink, salt, acrylic wash



Knob Maul Shelter, Virginia, (37.0008, -8140446), 2018. Pen and ink, acrylic wash





William Brien Memorial Shelter, New York, (41.2796N, 74.0594W), 2017. Pen and ink, acrylic wash

William Penn Shelter, Pennsylvania, (40.49559,-76.41409), 2017. Pen and ink, acrylic wash





Exhibitions



2020 — Group Exhibition      
Everyone is a Collector
InLiquid

2020 — Group Exhibition      
Assemblage: 20 Years of Environmental Art

Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education

2019 — Solo Exhibition      
HIKER TRASH

David Rubin Land Collective Gallery

2019 — Solo Exhibition      
HIKER TRASH

Paradigm Gallery + Studio



Shop Original Drawings


Peru Peak, Vermont, (43.3012, -72.95184), 2017. Pen and ink, acrylic wash






Spring Mountain Shelter, Tennessee, (35.95177, -82.79007), 2018. Pen and ink, acrylic wash



Cold Spring Shelter, North Carolina, (35.23109, -83.55996), 2016. Pen and ink, acrylic wash


Garfield Ridge Campsite Shelter, New Hampshire, (44.19069, -71.60836), 2018. Pen and ink, acrylic wash
Updated 09.2026