2nd adventure

After i found the perfect hiking trail to go naked a week ago, I decided to take another vacation from work. Unfortunately, it was a bit more busy than last week, but i looked around and saw mostly older folks and people with small children. Nobody i felt would be going and a tough hike, so i took my small pack (to store my water bottle and clothes once i get deep enough to take off) and make my way to quarry run. As soon as i het to the fork with the more difficult trail, i look around and see nobody in the area. So i start walking down the trail and get away from the open area where I'd be more exposed. About five minutes in and no sign of another person, i felt safe enough to go ahead and take my shorts and shirt off . I folded them and placed them in my pack and continued with my hike (naked, of course) and instantly felt the warm breeze against my naked, sweaty body. It felt better than the first time since i was more confident that there was nobody around. I continue hiking and take pictures of the scenery and enjoy nature for a good while i lose track of time but i didnt caee because i finally felt free. After walking the trail a while longer i was finally getting close to the other end of the trail where it meets up with the other trail so reluctantly i put on my clothes and walk up to the fork. I take a short rest and drink some water and begin to contemplate on taking the other walking trail and continue further up or return to the path i already took. Not too long into my rest a couple of hikers walking a dog come up from the trail i was going to take. We greeted each othe and the made thier way to the easier hiking trail that forks back to where i started. So that close call made me decide that it was too risky to move forward with my naked hike, so i waited a bit more just to see if there were anymore peolle on the trail and after about five minutes i decided to go back the way i came and enjoy the hike back naked as well. I walk a few minutes back down the trail and take my clothes off again and continue hiking (now trying to listen for any footsteps or talking from other hikers). I continue down the narrow path and come to an open field and boldly push forward and get to the other side getting back to the wooded area. Ten more minutes of hiking down the narrow path and without warning a mountain biker turns a corner on his bike and is heading twards me, i begin to panic for two reasons 1. I was naked and he was seconds from noticing me and 2. The path is narrow and i was trying to move to the side. He looked up and sped by me and apoligized i assume for startling me and i apologized as well (for being naked) and he sped off, i walked a bit further before i decided to put my clothes back on. I wasnt sure if he was alone or if he was with someone and i did not want to risk it being a woman or kids and get into trouble. So that was the end of my naked hiking for the day. Ill come back again hopefully before they close the trail for the season. But it was exciting.

Motzu

You are doing this in far too populated of a area. People passively observing can call the police or can return to their car faster than you can finish a walk.

If you are going to do this naked hiking crap, avoid hiking trails. They are trails because they are regularly used. You described terrain with elevarion, so instead look at rail roads on google maps. Look for parking spots along rural roads with a walking trail heading towards them. These are used by hunters.

What you are specifically looking for is a stretch of tracks that doesn't hit any houses, with cleared back yards next to the tracks.

I know places I could hike for miles naked like this. It is also a good training opprotunity as you will want to walk on the wood and not the stones of the rails, and you will quickly discover which leg is dominant (yes, you have a dominant leg) and you'll learn to control your breathing to pace if you are taking even strides. Oftentimes deer will make trails off these lines so you can veer off on them for a bit more of a hike. Just have a emergency azimuth set jf you carry a compass in the directions of the tracks, or at least remember which side of the tracks you are on and in what direction water drains in relation to them.

If it had alot of bridges, you might get vertigo looking down- I used to be a paratrooper and still get ancy with the heights. If it involves a train tunnel, even in extreme hot temperatures exlecf it to be very cold inside, including ice on the floor with a layer of untra slippery water. I'd recommend avoiding the tunnels until you are more experiences. I've slipped on ice in 100°+ temps outside.

I will often strip down to just shorts on week long hikes because the sweat eats through shirts in a wave pattern and freaks grocery stores when I enter them with such a messed up looking shirt on, so I keep it hygenucally sealed away if at all possible.

And keep extra clean, you'll get inner thaigh rashes and monkey butt quicker due to chaffing mixing with sweat with no fabric protection.

onewithshoes · 22-25, F

I find it more fun with a group. The woman who leads our hiking group goes fully dressed and shod, but apart from allowing the girls to wear shoes, has the rest of us go fully naked in summer. We decided that this last saturday was 'indian summer'.🌞

southerncrossfire44 · 46-50, M

@onewithshoes Why does your hike leader run a nude hiking group if she stays clothed? I would expect that she would want to participate, too.