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The Best Outdoorsy Memes from the 2025 Met Gala

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May 06, 2025MOST READ3 min read

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Aimee Lou Wood, shoe detail, attends the 2025 Met Gala Celebrating "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style" at Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 05, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images)(Photo: Getty Images)

On the first Monday of May, the fashion world comes together to celebrate at its annual soirée. The Met Gala isthecelebration of culture and fashion, and the entire world gathers to gawk at, admire, and critique celebrities’ ostentatious outfits. This year’s theme wasSuperfine: Tailoring Black Style. The theme encouraged designers and fashion icons to draw inspiration from 300 years of Black style, from 18th century dandyism to the modern day.

You may be asking yourself: “As an outdoorsperson or a granola girl, what does the Met Gala have to do with me?” Well, just as football championships are often eclipsed by their TV commercials, the true highlight of the Met Gala has quickly become the next day’s memes. Plus, as hyper-focused outdoorspeople, we see adventure inspiration everywhere…including this year’s blue carpet. This is not a best dressed list by any means—this is our best memes list of 2025.

A Roundup of the Best Outdoorsy Met Gala Memes on the Internet

It’s only right that Wild Rye shares a photo of thefastest woman in the world, Sha’Carri Richardson, to attain Queen of the Mountain Status in thisStrava-relatedmeme.

Ok, yes, but really it’s: Our crew capturing every second of the camping trip that finally made it out of the group chat…

Coloradans have their Fourteeners—and Angelenos have their Runyon Canyon hikinginfluencers.

Pictured: Us planning every moment of a 3-day backpacking trip for our friends. (We’re not mad, we’re just Type-A.)

Finally, the 70s! Cardi wearing custom Burberry styled by Kollin Carter. A tailored, velvet, floor-length pantsuit with a ruffled shirt and waist belt?! It’s so 70s funk, Superfly, Bootsy Collins, Prince-inspired. The color + brocade?! One of the best tonight!#MetGala2025pic.twitter.com/0Od7hVOgSo

POV: That patch ofpoison ivyon your favorite trail, eyeing its next victim at the start of the season.

What our computers look like when we’re planning a backpacking orclimbing trip…

The crow at your campsite as it waits to steal yoursnackswhen you aren’t looking.

me trying to leave the office before 5 pmhttps://t.co/LkhqaTdzif

What we look like on a Friday afternoon, sneaking out early so we can hit the road for the weekend adventure.

Our seasonal allergies’ biggest fears: a trail in full bloom, and this dress.

Our hiking boots after even the shortest of off-trail jaunts. (Burrs? check. Cheat grass? check. Oh—is that a whole stick I see there?)

Gnara’shilarious roundup is for all adventurers alike. Swipe through for camping, climbing,  hiking, and more outdoorsy memes.

There’s nothing that gets Seattleites going like seeing Mt. Rainier out in all of her glory. Consider this the official announcement that summer in the PNW has started.

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