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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?
« on: June 15, 2024, 10:13:07 AM »
It's been a crappy spring for naturism overall here in the Canadian west. This is definitely a La Ni
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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?
« on: July 25, 2023, 06:44:21 AM »
Only two or three kms of actual hiking, I'm afraid ... too darn hot! As to souvenirs, yes, a couple of big rocks for the garden and two huge bags of dried ... well, cow poop. Why pay a garden centre when I can get manure for free? :-)
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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?
« on: July 25, 2023, 02:17:31 AM »
Here in western Canada, the prairies were divided into one mile squares early on, separated by "grid roads" which allow access to individual farms, businesses, etc. Some of these gravelled lanes can be quite isolated in more sparsely populated areas, and it was on some of these that I became the "Nightwalker", out in the open air but well hidden by darkness. Still, naked hikes are a lot warmer by daylight, especially these days. The problem becomes the light but persistent traffic.
I began checking out Google Earth, and I found a few large areas in southern Saskatchewan where the grids just sort of quit...that is, they give way to meandering roads that seemed to wind their way around hills and lakes in landscapes less suited to agricultural use. So yesterday I decided to make a two hour drive into the centre of one of these to check out the possibility of making a truly isolated daytime hike.
What I found was a gorgeous area of the province I did not even know existed! This land, many kilometres across in all directions, essentially has no one on it but cows, lots and lots of cows. It is a rolling landscape of hills and lakes and sagebrush, and yesterday it was hot: 32 degrees (90 F) in the shade, not that there was any shade. The photo does not do it justice at all. The marks in the dusty road indicated no one but me had driven there in days. Needless to say, I got some serious hiking in, au naturale.
I only wish there was something like this closer to the city, except of course, it's the very fact that it is isolated that keeps it so pure. Were it closer to town, this beautiful natural area would be quickly overrun by "adventurers" with ATVs, drones, etc. Ah, well. Might as well treat it as a best kept secret, one handy for an occasional visit. At least I drove all the way there and back in the buff (undressing in the garage before leaving). That brings my carnuding total on two trips this week to just over 600 kms naked!
I began checking out Google Earth, and I found a few large areas in southern Saskatchewan where the grids just sort of quit...that is, they give way to meandering roads that seemed to wind their way around hills and lakes in landscapes less suited to agricultural use. So yesterday I decided to make a two hour drive into the centre of one of these to check out the possibility of making a truly isolated daytime hike.
What I found was a gorgeous area of the province I did not even know existed! This land, many kilometres across in all directions, essentially has no one on it but cows, lots and lots of cows. It is a rolling landscape of hills and lakes and sagebrush, and yesterday it was hot: 32 degrees (90 F) in the shade, not that there was any shade. The photo does not do it justice at all. The marks in the dusty road indicated no one but me had driven there in days. Needless to say, I got some serious hiking in, au naturale.
I only wish there was something like this closer to the city, except of course, it's the very fact that it is isolated that keeps it so pure. Were it closer to town, this beautiful natural area would be quickly overrun by "adventurers" with ATVs, drones, etc. Ah, well. Might as well treat it as a best kept secret, one handy for an occasional visit. At least I drove all the way there and back in the buff (undressing in the garage before leaving). That brings my carnuding total on two trips this week to just over 600 kms naked!
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Free Range Naturism / Re: On Walking Alone
« on: February 20, 2023, 05:46:18 AM »
My walks have almost all been solo, but then again, I started off as a night hiker in the countryside, about 100 prairie kms outside of Nowhere. These days, I hike during the day maybe two or three klics to a nudist beach, through lightly forested meadows and/or farmland. I did convince the missus to come along – once – but she's not big on hiking. If I can get away at night this summer, I'd like to try the old night walking again. There's an uncommon thrill in being naked in the middle of a country road on a warm summer night, far from water and hence, without the excuse of skinnydipping. Naked where one is not supposed to be, yet obviously without the intention of offending...I've a notion the local Mounties would roll their eyes and let it go.
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General Naturism Discussion / Re: Game/Trail Cameras
« on: October 07, 2021, 02:10:12 AM »
Well, it finally happened, after more than two decades of freehiking: I encountered my first trail camera! It was right near a hunter's blind (a ladder up a tree, anyway), and it was in a small clearing on a route through the woods I'd never taken before. I actually noticed it from alongside and slightly behind the camera, which was a somewhat technical looking device about the size of a hardcover, strapped on to a tree. I snuck up behind it to look for a lens, and sure enough there it was.
Never one to deny a hunter a good laugh, I returned to my route and continued on by, flashing a peace sign to the camera behind me. I wish I could catch the owner's reaction when they check out the footage! It made my day, and hopefully will make theirs too.
Never one to deny a hunter a good laugh, I returned to my route and continued on by, flashing a peace sign to the camera behind me. I wish I could catch the owner's reaction when they check out the footage! It made my day, and hopefully will make theirs too.
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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?
« on: August 15, 2021, 05:55:05 AM »
Crazy times, to be sure. We've also noticed changes in wildlife, most noticeably the birds eating our garden, to my wife's dismay. I finally realized why: extreme heat + no rain = no mosquitos! Normally you need to practically bathe in repellent here, but this whole summer so far I've maybe seen six. Not that I really miss them!
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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?
« on: August 14, 2021, 01:32:31 PM »
It's been a stifling summer here in the Canadian west. Temperatures have been mostly in the upper 30s, with NO air conditioning in the house! Normals here for today are 12/24°C (54/75°F) but the forecast is calling for 36° (97°F). Over the year, temperatures here range from -45° to +42°C (-49° to 108°F), so we really shouldn't complain TOO much about the heat!
On the other hand, Lytton, in the province of British Columbia, burned to the ground after breaking the all-time Canadian record high three days in a row, nearing 50°C (122°F). That's way too warm, even nude... even for me.
On the other hand, Lytton, in the province of British Columbia, burned to the ground after breaking the all-time Canadian record high three days in a row, nearing 50°C (122°F). That's way too warm, even nude... even for me.
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Free Range Naturism / Re: Nighttime naturism
« on: December 19, 2020, 07:42:49 AM »
Man, it's been ages since I did one of my night walks. In recent years I became a daytime hiker, having found an isolated, forested trail by a major prairie river near an unofficial but well-known nudist beach. Sandy beaches, forest, beautiful meadows, and wildlife -- deer, moose, coyotes, etc.
I do sometimes miss the thrill of being "naked in the night", though, experiences I restricted to isolated highways and roads. Maybe next summer...
I do sometimes miss the thrill of being "naked in the night", though, experiences I restricted to isolated highways and roads. Maybe next summer...
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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?
« on: January 02, 2019, 10:07:24 PM »
Southern Saskatchewan. Ya don't even want to know about the North.
On the bright side, right now it's +4° (39F). The temperature variations here are ridiculous. One city nearby hit 42° (108F) in August...then, on the last day of summer, it snowed. I've shoveled walks in September, yet lazed on the beach in October. I can tell you I prefer the latter!
On the bright side, right now it's +4° (39F). The temperature variations here are ridiculous. One city nearby hit 42° (108F) in August...then, on the last day of summer, it snowed. I've shoveled walks in September, yet lazed on the beach in October. I can tell you I prefer the latter!
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Free Range Naturism / Re: Hiking without a net
« on: January 02, 2019, 09:58:12 PM »
Well, I heard 'em coming, so I probably wasn't seen. The particular grid I chose has no fences, only shelterbelts about 50 metres or so from the roadside. Off the old highway, however, on the south and east edges of the grid, there was nearly no shelter at all.
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Free Range Naturism / Re: Hiking without a net
« on: January 02, 2019, 09:45:02 AM »
Came late to this thread, hopefully BlueTrain is out there living the dream! Congrats, keep us posted!
My own crazy indulgence re: "Without a safety net" was documented back in the day on the old SNS site. Reader's Digest version:
Saskatchewan was "gridded" in one-mile squares well over 100 years ago when Euro settlers were granted the land of First Nations people for settling and farming ... that's a whole other story, and not Canada's finest moment. We still have gravelled "grid roads" across the southern part of the province, and it occurred to me (as "Nightwalker") that it might be a gnarly thing to hike one, a total of four miles square, in the dead of night, completely nude, sans backup. In today's lingo, that is 6.4 kilometres.
Succinctly put, I hid the car in a grove about 100 metres off a declining-use highway that had been reverted from asphalt back to gravel. My bathing suit went into a plastic bag, just off the road. And yes -- long story short, I did the whole square completely in the nude. I carried in my hands my car keys, a tiny flashlight, a small can of pepper spray -- and nothing else at all. On the way, two cars went by. With the first, I nearly ran naked into a porcupine at the side of the road! I also passed an abandoned farm, which proved to be exactly that, judging from the lack of ball-ripping farm dogs. There was a chorus of coyotes, the snorting of (I hope) deer, and many other things in the naked night to keep my imagination torqued.
I haven't even touched on the tactile pleasures of it all...the cool drops of scattered rain on a hot summer night, the patches of warm, black, leftover asphalt, the whiff of wild sage... Gawd, I miss summer!
It was crazy, stupid, nonsense ... and I hope to have the guts to do it again someday.
My own crazy indulgence re: "Without a safety net" was documented back in the day on the old SNS site. Reader's Digest version:
Saskatchewan was "gridded" in one-mile squares well over 100 years ago when Euro settlers were granted the land of First Nations people for settling and farming ... that's a whole other story, and not Canada's finest moment. We still have gravelled "grid roads" across the southern part of the province, and it occurred to me (as "Nightwalker") that it might be a gnarly thing to hike one, a total of four miles square, in the dead of night, completely nude, sans backup. In today's lingo, that is 6.4 kilometres.
Succinctly put, I hid the car in a grove about 100 metres off a declining-use highway that had been reverted from asphalt back to gravel. My bathing suit went into a plastic bag, just off the road. And yes -- long story short, I did the whole square completely in the nude. I carried in my hands my car keys, a tiny flashlight, a small can of pepper spray -- and nothing else at all. On the way, two cars went by. With the first, I nearly ran naked into a porcupine at the side of the road! I also passed an abandoned farm, which proved to be exactly that, judging from the lack of ball-ripping farm dogs. There was a chorus of coyotes, the snorting of (I hope) deer, and many other things in the naked night to keep my imagination torqued.
I haven't even touched on the tactile pleasures of it all...the cool drops of scattered rain on a hot summer night, the patches of warm, black, leftover asphalt, the whiff of wild sage... Gawd, I miss summer!
It was crazy, stupid, nonsense ... and I hope to have the guts to do it again someday.
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Free Range Naturism / Re: How was your month for Free Range Naturism?
« on: January 02, 2019, 07:55:13 AM »
I've a definite yearning to get out there "au naturale". Alas, the temperature with wind chill on the morning of New Year's Eve was a chilly -43° (-45F). Sunrise at 9:15 am, sets at 5:02 pm.
I. Am. Losing. My. Freaking. Mind.
I. Am. Losing. My. Freaking. Mind.
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Factory Farmed Naturism / Re: Nude Swim under attack by the prudes
« on: August 23, 2018, 10:24:04 AM »14
Factory Farmed Naturism / Re: Nude Swim under attack by the prudes
« on: August 17, 2018, 07:55:17 AM »
My wife and I were at a festival in Edmonton, and came across a booth for the FCN (Federation of Canadian Naturists). We got to talking about the uproar in Calgary over the family nude swim nights. The fact is, they've been having these for years, if not decades. It's true that there was definitely more advertising this time round, which came to the attention of some of the more conservative elements in rural Alberta. (AB still has a bit of that old stigma of being that kind of grassroots populist. It's Canada's Texas, after all.)
I'm happy to say that the police have arrested a suspect in the threat making, a woman in a small city in Alberta. I believe she and her supporters way have been acting out of a misplaced sense of moral outrage, actually thinking they were protecting children.
If there's anything for us to learn from this, it's a reminder that naturism simply cannot live in a bubble, now more than ever. I no longer hide from friends, family or coworkers the fact that we are nudists -- and I'm amazed at how little some people know of the lifestyle. (No, naturism is not for swingers. Yes, entire families participate. No, we are not all Venuses and Adonises -- rather far from it, speaking for myself.)
Education is the key, particularly in this time of extremes. Without it, we risk being cast as a group to the fringes, or worse.
I'm happy to say that the police have arrested a suspect in the threat making, a woman in a small city in Alberta. I believe she and her supporters way have been acting out of a misplaced sense of moral outrage, actually thinking they were protecting children.
If there's anything for us to learn from this, it's a reminder that naturism simply cannot live in a bubble, now more than ever. I no longer hide from friends, family or coworkers the fact that we are nudists -- and I'm amazed at how little some people know of the lifestyle. (No, naturism is not for swingers. Yes, entire families participate. No, we are not all Venuses and Adonises -- rather far from it, speaking for myself.)
Education is the key, particularly in this time of extremes. Without it, we risk being cast as a group to the fringes, or worse.
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Free Range Naturism / Re: The car key problem
« on: July 23, 2017, 06:06:48 AM »
Ah, car keys. As a fitness enthusiast -- okay, okay, an out-of-shape blob with a fitness tracker -- I can tell you that my Fitbit wristband is the ideal place to loop the basic car key. All other keys remain hidden in the car in some crevasse until Maya and I return.
This has served us well in our summer visits to nudist communities, especially since my particular flavour of band (a Flex 2) is waterproof. It's also handy for freehiking.
This has served us well in our summer visits to nudist communities, especially since my particular flavour of band (a Flex 2) is waterproof. It's also handy for freehiking.
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