Nude Hiking - Trail Etiquette

[Yukon1]

Nude Hiking - Trail Etiquette & Tips

I'd like to add a "Trail Etiquette & Tips" section to my Web page - http://www.yukonalaska.com/nudehiking/ - and would appreciate your input into what should be included. From the excellent Australian starting point posted at http://www.geocities.com/barebushwalking/Hints.html I've slightly modified it to:

1. Avoid trails where there are likely to be clothed hikers. It's best to avoid confrontation if at all possible.

2. Use 'out and back' trails. That way if there are no vehicles at the trailhead you can be pretty sure that at least on the outward journey you will have the trail to yourself.

3. Look for signs that others have been on the trail before you, and if you do meet someone coming the other way, ask them if they have seen anyone else on the trail.

4. Avoid trails where there are likely to be children and family groups. People who would normally react with a smile when meeting a nude hiker can easily take offence if they feel their children are threatened.

5. If possible, hike with others. A lone hiker is more likely to be seen in a bad light than a group. A group with both men and women will also generally be seen in a better light than an all-male one.

6. If possible do your walks on a weekday rather than on weekends.

7. Be aware of where the trail will take you - you don't want to find yourself in a residential area.

8. Keep an eye out ahead for approaching hikers, and be prepared to cover up quickly. If you are alert you will see or hear them long before they are aware of you.

9. If you are caught by surprise, act naturally, normally and openly. Don't dive into the bushes or act in some other guilty or suspicious manner.

10. Take off sunglasses to greet or talk to others.

11. Be aware of weather conditions. Take clothing that would be required if it started raining or there was a sudden drop in temperature.

12. Put your clothes back on if you have to traverse areas where it is likely you may slip and find yourself sliding down rough or rocky ground. Nude gravel rash is best avoided.

13. Carry sufficient food and fluids for the duration of your walk, and be aware that hiking in the nude makes dehydration occur more quickly.

14. Carry plenty of sunscreen and mosquito repellant.

15. Last but definitely not least, tell someone where you're going and when you'll be back.

What else would you add to this list (or remove from it)?

Thanks! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

[Yukon1]

Nude Hiking - Trail Etiquette & Tips

I'd like to add a "Trail Etiquette & Tips" section to my Web page - http://www.yukonalaska.com/nudehiking/ - and would appreciate your input into what should be included. From the excellent Australian starting point posted at http://www.geocities.com/barebushwalking/Hints.html I've slightly modified it to:

1. Avoid trails where there are likely to be clothed hikers. It's best to avoid confrontation if at all possible.

2. Use 'out and back' trails. That way if there are no vehicles at the trailhead you can be pretty sure that at least on the outward journey you will have the trail to yourself.

3. Look for signs that others have been on the trail before you, and if you do meet someone coming the other way, ask them if they have seen anyone else on the trail.

4. Avoid trails where there are likely to be children and family groups. People who would normally react with a smile when meeting a nude hiker can easily take offence if they feel their children are threatened.

5. If possible, hike with others. A lone hiker is more likely to be seen in a bad light than a group. A group with both men and women will also generally be seen in a better light than an all-male one.

6. If possible do your walks on a weekday rather than on weekends.

7. Be aware of where the trail will take you - you don't want to find yourself in a residential area.

8. Keep an eye out ahead for approaching hikers, and be prepared to cover up quickly. If you are alert you will see or hear them long before they are aware of you.

9. If you are caught by surprise, act naturally, normally and openly. Don't dive into the bushes or act in some other guilty or suspicious manner.

10. Take off sunglasses to greet or talk to others.

11. Be aware of weather conditions. Take clothing that would be required if it started raining or there was a sudden drop in temperature.

12. Put your clothes back on if you have to traverse areas where it is likely you may slip and find yourself sliding down rough or rocky ground. Nude gravel rash is best avoided.

13. Carry sufficient food and fluids for the duration of your walk, and be aware that hiking in the nude makes dehydration occur more quickly.

14. Carry plenty of sunscreen and mosquito repellant.

15. Last but definitely not least, tell someone where you're going and when you'll be back.

What else would you add to this list (or remove from it)?

Thanks! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_cool.gif[/img]

[Gary Naturist]

Here are my suggested modifications:

Remove items 1 to 8 on the basis that there is no part of the human body that needs to be hidden from view.

Keep number 9.

Change number 10 to: Offer a friendly greeting to everyone you meet.

Remove items 11 to 14 because they relate to protection, not etiquette.

Renumber items 9 and 10 to be 1 and 2.

So here's what you end up with:

1. If you are caught by surprise, act naturally, normally and openly. Don't dive into the bushes or act in some other guilty or suspicious manner.

2. Offer a friendly greeting to everyone you meet.

Works for me .. Gary

[Yukon1]

>>...there is no part of the human body that needs to be hidden from view.<<

While all of us here agree with that, there are a whole lot of people who don't, thus the etiquette of respecting others' feelings - oh yes, and of not getting arrested, too! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Murray

[NudeAl]

I agree, we here see no problems but we happen to live in a world that dosen't always see things like this the same way. It is wise to be a bit cautious.

I would add that the hiking group, when at all possible, should try to have both male and females hikers. For some reason it seems that when we see a mixed group like this others realize the group is harmless. I'm not sure why this is though I have experienced it on more that one occaision. A group of nude men will sometimes cause a negative reaction.

I would also add a survival kit to your gear list in case the worst happens and you have to spend the night out there. One more thing let someone know where you are going and when you expect to return so that they can notifiy the authorities if nessesary.

[RIVERRAT]

These are things I've always wanted to do, nude hiking, canueding, nude boating, just enjoying the outdoors nude , there will come a time when even if it's not legal it will be accepted, I'll be doing my part PUSH the envelope and go as far as you can.

[Yukon1]

Thanks, eh! I'm editing my original post/list to reflect what's being suggested.

Murray

[johny]

I am shocked for Your avidity to smear the whole body square with bioactive carcinogenic poison mixture, repellent. Even mosquitos are afraid from such garbage, only humankind is so unsensitive that loose any caution against deltametrine, dibutilphtalate, organophosphates etc heavy chemistry widely used for active ingredients.

Never I met any danger from mosquitos even in most mosquitoe-full areas. As long as someone moves fast, noone mosquito is able to bite. Them eat us only if we stay quit. If somone hikes the trail, I cant immagine how he may stay quit, accordingly I cannot see the reason to use so UNNATURAL habit to poison own body with own hands.

Should the Naturist be a man who use Unnatural habits??

Only once in my life I met a specific 100 meter zone where mosquitos used to do their marriage dances. The density was, for rough calculation, about 1000 mosquitos at each cm3 or 10 000 000 000 pieces or 10 000 kg of that damn creatures flesh what thouht I am walking God given "Swedish table" designed for their dinner after good mosquitish sex-plays. My only save was run as quick I can through this mild creme-consistence cloudlike alive wall and after half of kilometer they loose me from view. All the rest of evening I caugh out a mosquitoe body parts from my lungs and rasp my d*** (strangely they like to bite this body part most of all). Their meat was so un-tasty, huh.

But be sure, if even one shall meet those "small guys" again, the chemistry will never be saver - them are too lot and very hungry and wild.

[johny]

Oh, yes. I forgot to tell that I am rarely use a bag with the dresses in my nude hiking so my naked run through such abnormal mosquitoes cloud was really adrenalinish adventure. Interesting, I never heard before the mosquitos would have a habit for collectivism and collective marriage dances. Only ants, those flying sort, those I met couple of times before heavy rain coming

[Guest]

Johny...You must have slow Mosquitos....Some of the Mosquitos I encountered one July in Tuolumne Meadows (Yosemite)chased me faster than I could run and jump in my car.I managed to escape being eaten alive by speeding off in the car and rolling down the windows to blow them out...That was over forty years ago and I've been carrying and using repellant ever since...The effects of the repellant seem much less frightful to me now than a hungry swarm of mosquitos...especially since I can no longer run as fast as I could then....Hmmmmm.... maybe its the repellant doing me in afterall?..Couldn't possibly be that I'm getting old [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] ...Odb

[Guest]

Outdoorbare,

We're not getting older; we're getting better!

[Guest]

Thanks Jon-marc... I agree...now all I have to do is convince my body that your statement is true...It seems like ever since I passed the big 60 it's a little slow getting started in the morning... [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img] Odb

[Nude in MT]

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Originally posted by johny:
[qb] I am shocked for Your avidity to smear the whole body square with bioactive carcinogenic poison mixture, repellent... [/qb]

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With the high concentration of West Nile Virus cases in my area, I think the risk of chemical poisoning is worth taking.

[nudistwoody]

quote:

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Originally posted by Yukon1:
[qb] >>...there is no part of the human body that needs to be hidden from view.<<

While all of us here agree with that, there are a whole lot of people who don't, thus the etiquette of respecting others' feelings - oh yes, and of not getting arrested, too! [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img]

Murray [/qb]

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If we always must respect others feelings with regards to something we believe in, we shall never advance our cause. Imagine if Rosa Parks had respected the feelings of the white riders on the bus.
Respect your own feelings as well. Not everyone is ready or able to make this choice, thankfully some are.

[Yukon1]

>>If we always must respect others feelings with regards to something we believe in, we shall never advance our cause.<<

When you "walk the walk" by going to the mall nude, perhaps we could pass the hat here for your bail. I'd rather take some minor precautions and have fun, and make my statement about naturism in a way that doesn't jeopardize my freedom - that is, through my Web site.

Murray