nifocinphx
07-25-2006, 02:29 PM
There is an excellent article, by Tim Querengesser, about freehiking and naturism in the current issue of Up Here magazine.
Excerpts -
In Canada's northwest, uninhibited adventurers are giving "northern exposure" a whole new meaning.
On a warm summer day several years ago, George Walker was tramping (nude) alone through the mountain-strewn backcountry some 25 kilometres south of his cabin in the southern Yukon. It was an area so isolated, Walker says, that the areas big grizzlies might go a lifetime without seeing a human.
On this day, however, a bear did see one. And apparently, Walker wasnt to its liking.
As the several-hundred-pound bruin came crashing through the aspen forest...
For Walker, a fiftysomething writer and photographer, being charged by a hungry bear was his worst experience trekking nude in the North. Almost everything else, he says, has been his best. Meeting him in a busy Whitehorse cofffeeshop clothed, of course I find him tall and athletically built, with a mustache and cropped salt-and-pepper hair that glows against his deep tan. He speaks of naked hiking with the conviction of a man discussing spiritual matters. Youre more a part of the world when youre not wearing a whole bunch of clothing. It connects you to the wilderness so much...
Click on The Great Wide Open, by Tim Querengesser (http://www.uphere.ca/this-month/magazineDetail.aspx?Cat=Feature&ID=63) to read this delightful article. Even if you're not into freehiking, I think you will enjoy reading it.
Related links:
Up Here, July 2006 magazine cover (http://www.uphere.ca/images/cover-jul-2006.jpg)
Northern airline pulls magazine over nudity (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2006/07/11/buff-bum.html) from CFI's Nudes in the News
It would be so cool (pun intended) to freehike in the Yukon, but I've lived in Aridzoneaaaa too many years. <span class="ev_code_BLUE">Bare in the Desert</span>, <span class="ev_code_BLUE">justnude</span> and other 'desert rats' who post on cff can identify with that http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/wink3.gif
Excerpts -
In Canada's northwest, uninhibited adventurers are giving "northern exposure" a whole new meaning.
On a warm summer day several years ago, George Walker was tramping (nude) alone through the mountain-strewn backcountry some 25 kilometres south of his cabin in the southern Yukon. It was an area so isolated, Walker says, that the areas big grizzlies might go a lifetime without seeing a human.
On this day, however, a bear did see one. And apparently, Walker wasnt to its liking.
As the several-hundred-pound bruin came crashing through the aspen forest...
For Walker, a fiftysomething writer and photographer, being charged by a hungry bear was his worst experience trekking nude in the North. Almost everything else, he says, has been his best. Meeting him in a busy Whitehorse cofffeeshop clothed, of course I find him tall and athletically built, with a mustache and cropped salt-and-pepper hair that glows against his deep tan. He speaks of naked hiking with the conviction of a man discussing spiritual matters. Youre more a part of the world when youre not wearing a whole bunch of clothing. It connects you to the wilderness so much...
Click on The Great Wide Open, by Tim Querengesser (http://www.uphere.ca/this-month/magazineDetail.aspx?Cat=Feature&ID=63) to read this delightful article. Even if you're not into freehiking, I think you will enjoy reading it.
Related links:
Up Here, July 2006 magazine cover (http://www.uphere.ca/images/cover-jul-2006.jpg)
Northern airline pulls magazine over nudity (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2006/07/11/buff-bum.html) from CFI's Nudes in the News
It would be so cool (pun intended) to freehike in the Yukon, but I've lived in Aridzoneaaaa too many years. <span class="ev_code_BLUE">Bare in the Desert</span>, <span class="ev_code_BLUE">justnude</span> and other 'desert rats' who post on cff can identify with that http://oakhurstonline.com/icon/wink3.gif