How was your month for Free Range Naturism?

[Greenbare Woods]

I acted naturally and did not cover.  We met, exchanged a friendly greeting and went on our ways.  From everything I could tell, it was a positive experience.   She encountered a nude hiker, I treated her respectfully, and the world didn't stop. 

Good for you. 

You met, exchanged friendly greetings, and went on your respective ways.  That's the key take away here.  I've had similar experiences hundreds of times over 40 years. Meeting someone naked without negative results teaches her that meeting a naked person is not a negative experience.  Its part of educating the public to accept nudity as a common choice in clement weather. 

We can worry about "maybe they called the police," but its mostly just your long conditioned social worry. The odds are very long against anything negative happening. Even if she did call the police they mostly have better things to do and don't want to be running around in the woods looking for someone who didn't hurt anyone.  But she very probably just enjoyed the encounter and the friendly greeting. 

When any of us are wandering about naked we need to assume that we WILL BE SEEN, if not today, then next time.  It does not hurt.  It does not cause problems.  Its all part of being natural in nature.  I've been seen hundreds or thousands of times, and I still enjoy the social contact. We are a social species. I would rather meet people occasionally than always be alone and lonely.  Its all good.  Don't let fear stop you from enjoying the world naked. 

I’m in the Midwest and the park is managed by a local municipality.

The laws vary a lot in the Midwest.  Kansas has no laws against hiking naked. Nude is generally legal anywhere in Kansas.   Arkansas, on the other side, prohibits all nudity, even on private property.  Its even illegal in Arkansas to talk about or promote nudism.  So the Midwest covers a lot of ground and local areas vary a lot.

[jbeegoode]

Odd that someone would be civil and say nothing, then call the park police. It could happen, she could change her mind, the two could get together at the trailhead and feed on each other for attitudes. Highly unlikely.

A park, how far and for how long might someone hike. Are the authorities so bored that they can go sit in a parking lot for hours, or might you camp? Would the women press charges? In court, a witness is needed, in this case two witnesses to prove it, and who wants to pursue such a thing after experiencing a nude hiker as harmless?

I like to act as if nothing is not ordinary. With conversation, I might sometimes say, "hope that you don't mind nudity?" The message is that I'm not here nude for you, I'm here to enjoy the day and was surprised to see someone. Perhaps, "Oh, I didn't expect to see someone else."

It depends where you are and how many. I don't regularly hike in places, except more traditional nude areas with a history, or expectation. One complaint is harmless, two or more complaints and suspicion may be aroused.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

I went bicycle riding again today, third time this week. It was a wetland trail natural area, Cheney Wetland Trail, with not very much traffic so I took the opportunity to be natural.  I passed three other men.  They were walking.  Two were fully clothed with shirt and longish shorts.  One middle age guy had only shorter shorts and no shirt.  He greeted me before I could greet him as we passed going opposite directions.  I suspect he would have been naked if he thought he could, and may some day follow my example.  It was a beautiful day on the trail.  Naturists need to be out promoting naturism with our bodies, and letting the rest of the world experience passive observation of uncovered humans. 



I stopped to take pictures on top of one of the hills.  Its only wetlands down below.  We haven't had any rain since July so everything away from the ponds is dry. This place is right on the edge of town.
 
https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7033444/cheney-wetlands-trail

[jbeegoode]

Another month! Been renovating the new house, so many helpers have been there and i have had to wear clothing when they are around. It is a big change after spending six months nude, but for a couple of hours getting groceries and hardware each week to ten days. I just did two bags of laundry. Probably more than the last six months.

There hasn't been much time to get out, Mt. Lemmon is closed and the temps have been record hot hot. We did make a three day trip up to the Mogollon Rim. Beautiful, green forest, a pleasant walk in a creek bed to a reservoir, a visit to an old Indian fighter battleground monument (guess who won and got to tell their version of the story?}. Trip report in the future.

It has been difficult to get posts out with all of the coordinating and remodeling and work. What a change!

We'll have a trip in September up in Northern Arizona, but it will be hard to get away, let alone write and publish stories.

I did experiment and figured out that I can't be seen through the dark screen across my front porch. At night, I have learned to switch the lights out out there and I'm able to remain natural. At night the neighborhood is quiet and I can wander out front, but for when the neighbor's security lights are on. It is peaceful in the cool night air. Two rains in months has eliminated any mosquito breeding.  A stifled project so far, but on the way, is a six foot security/privacy fence all around the property. Hopefully in a couple of weeks, I'll be freely nude all over my little quarter acre domain.
Jbee

[nuduke]

Bob,
Have you lost some weight?  You seem to be slimmer (relatively speaking!    ) in that bike picture.


Jbee,
Glad to see you are getting on with settling in and making yourself comfortable in the new premises.


I have been a bit quiet of late as I have been on a trip on a canal in Wales - very rural with lots of areas with no cell signal.  Just the thing to get away for a holiday but remain pretty socially distanced.  No nude hiking on this one, unfortunately.  Best I got was one early dawn I stood on deck naked for about 2 minutes before returning to our cabin.


John

[Greenbare Woods]

Bob,
Have you lost some weight?  You seem to be slimmer (relatively speaking!    ) in that bike picture.

Yes.  Since going full carnivore a year ago I've lost about 100 lbs and feel great.  I'm out riding and other athletic activities I couldn't do before. I'm wearing shirts I haven't worn in 30 years.  I posted about the carnivore way of eating a while back but most of the gang on here poo-pooed it.

I have been a bit quiet of late as I have been on a trip on a canal in Wales - very rural with lots of areas with no cell signal.  Just the thing to get away for a holiday but remain pretty socially distanced.  No nude hiking on this one, unfortunately.  Best I got was one early dawn I stood on deck naked for about 2 minutes before returning to our cabin.
John

Sounds like a wonderful trip John.   

[Davie]

This month is looking good. Two walks this week in the wonderful Yorkshire Dale. I did Great Whernside ealier in the week and Buckden Pike today. Both are just over 700 metres. Today I didn't walk up - I paddled up as the ground was so waterlogged. The assent was really cold with a biting cold wind so clothes remained on, but then it warmed up so back to normal.

Davie

[jbeegoode]

100 lbs. and riding a bike. Does my heart good to see you getting younger.

Davie, "back to normal" sounds like a great slogan coming about...and so truthful.
Jbee

[Greenbare Woods]

Went out bicycling on the Cheney Wetlands Trail SW of Spokane, WA, USA.  I passed 4 textile people today, a group of 3 on bicycles, and a single man walking.  I don't think the Secret Naturist Handbook would approve.  I smile and "howdy" them as I pass.  The single man waved back.  The 2 men and 1 woman on bicycles kept looking straight ahead and didn't say anything.  Nudity needs to be seen in pubic to become normal.  It was a beautiful day. for a naked bike ride. 

[Greenbare Woods]

100 lbs. and riding a bike. Does my heart good to see you getting younger.
Jbee 

Now my skin is all wrinkly from losing so much size.   I'm hoping that autophagia will make that go away, but it will be slow.   

[John P]

Now my skin is all wrinkly from losing so much size.   I'm hoping that autophlagia will make that go away, but it will be slow.   

I didn't know what autophlagia was, but I looked it up and found "autophagia" instead, which means "Autophagia occurs when one is compelled to inflict pain upon oneself by biting and/or devouring portions of one's body."

I do see how that might lead to the removal of some excess tissue, but there are probably better ways to achieve it. In fact I hope you'll say you meant something else!

[Greenbare Woods]

I didn't know what autophlagia was, but I looked it up and found "autophagia" instead, which means "Autophagia occurs when one is compelled to inflict pain upon oneself by biting and/or devouring portions of one's body."

OK, so I spelled it wrong.  Take the "l" out.   

Autophagia or Autophagy

Definitions:
     2. Maintenance of the nutrition of the whole body by metabolic consumption of some of the body tissues.
     3. Synonym(s): autophagy

It means consumption of your body by your body, which is how old recycled cells go away, and how extra flesh goes away. 

[John P]

Ah, metabolic consumption of body tissue! No need to be a self-cannibal in a more gruesome fashion!

You can look at some fold of skin and be like the Borg: "You will be assimilated."

[jbeegoode]

I have some of that same problem. Its like old folk wrinkles. Pulling my shoulders back, my boobs don't sag. When I lean forward the ripples appear in mass. Good healthy sweating exercise, I hope, will burn this sag off, in time. I notice a bit of sugar restores the firmness of my butt for a little while, but exercise on a trail restores some of my more youthful firmness in a more satisfying manner. I don't like when I know that my buns are swishing like mudflaps.

It is wonderful to feel the lightness, better balance, and greater ease of a leaner body.

Congratulation Bob. You appear to be enjoying yourself. I couldn't image the guy I met in Colorado on a bike. Does it give a sense of getting younger?
Jbee

[nuduke]

Well done, Bob
The new size suits you fine and you don't look like someone else, being as how we've got used to your previous physique. People that lose a lot of weight sometimes do look very different. 
I hope you feel better for it, m'boy .
Remind me of the carnivorous diet, would you, it's obviously very effective.  I do calorie counting and within that try to take my calories as what I regards as healthy stuff, like vegetables and fruit.
I have been trying to lose weight too.  It's so slow and laborious.  I started in August and lost 5lb in 5 weeks and happily maintained weight on my holiday.  However, it was our wedding anniversary around the middle of the month and it not being a special year number and what with the covid precautions, I ordered us a delivery of a picnic style cream-tea-cum-lunch from the local cafe.  There was a lot of it and it stretched out to both lunch and dinner.  Two days later we had 4 friends round for afternoon tea with scones, cake and so on.  So on 2 out of 3 days, I suspended the diet and ate the 'wrong' sort of food and maybe a bit more than usual - but certainly not excessive consumption - I remained mindful of the diet and ate sensibly.   But I weighed myself the day after - I had put on 3 pounds in 2 days!!!
I was so depressed and continue to be so.  There's no justice.  Asceticism and food boredom day day loses me about 1lb a week (which is fine, crash diets never last).  Yet that week, a bit extra carbohydrate and fat clung to me like iron filings to a magnet.
Here we are 2 weeks later and I have only re-lost 2 of the 3 pounds.  I find that deeply depressing.  Losing weight is so haaaarddddd!I want to lose 28 lbs overall.  Target March 2021 for that milestone.
John