If you have a rucksack, peaked cap, walking poles and boots then it looks pretty normal except for forgetting your shorts.
Thatās right with the requisite gear youāre a naked hiker, without it youāre potentially a wierdo or a strait-jacket escapee.
Noli illegitimi te carborundum
Done a few nude hikes in the hillsmoors and have always chucked my clothes and belongings in my rucksack and carried it with me. I'd hate someone to find and take my car keys etc.
On my nude early morning cycle rides, I head out nude from the house but have a pair of shorts and a t-shirt in my saddle bag.
Rob
In the olden time i would generally store them in the carrier of my bike. The last place I was able to be nude from home regularly, there was a wrecked car - amazing how many of those there are - I would leave them on the hood till I was ready to leave.
I usually start with a small backpack containing whatever supplies seem a sensible minimum for the walk. That can mean quite a bit of water, heavy but essential on a hot day.
When possible, the shorts come off and usually stay in the hand. Care is needed to ensure "essentials" (car keys, phone, credit card) can't fall out of pockets.
Sometimes I can stash the backpack and continue with just a small bumbag (but carried not worn) containing the "essentials" - the things you'd be stranded without - plus a small water-bottle and a rolled up pair of thin boxer-shorts that can double as minimal walking shorts. The fall-back is to be able to get home even if the backpack disappears for some reason.
I do a mixture. If running early morning, I carry shorts in hand, although occasionally stash them if very early. For longer walks I carry a rucksack and put them in there, with my kiniki wrap immediately accessible. For shorter walks where rucksack not needed, I will often leave with only my kiniki wrap, which I will wrap around my arm.
Tread lightly upon the earth
On the walks i have done i have carried my t-shirt and shorts rolled up. š
MJ Tacey
Often I walk naked with nothing to cover up with, and many times I drive to the walk naked as well i.e. no clothes anywhere but back at the house.
Recently I decided to to try a different walk along a river I had never been on some 20 miles or so from home. Drive there naked but decided to take shorts on the walk (in my hand) just in case I needed them. Somewhere along the walk I noticed I no longer had my car keys! So spent the next hour walking back along the route looking for my keys - no luck. Finally decide I would have to get back home Taxi or other means to get my spare keys. Luckily there was a house nearby and after a while seeing if a taxi was available, he drove me back home - naturally I paid him well for coming to my rescue and his lost time - but it did make me realise if I had done this without having any clothes - I would have had to walk along a main busy road and knocked on peoples doors to ask for help fully naked - would people have helped?
So my advice is do ensure your keys are secure (small hand held bag / camera bag, rucksack) with a phone and have some basic clothes with you just in case.
FYI I had my keys on my finger so I thought they would be secure and I'd notice if I lost them - all I can assume is when I was handling my dog - they dropped off - no idea (phone wallet etc all in the car).
So my advice is do ensure your keys are secure (small hand held bag / camera bag, rucksack) with a phone and have some basic clothes with you just in case.
My solutions to the keys and phone/cash problem are a small dog collar or a purse on a shoulder sling.
JOhn
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionaries
Since I started naked walking I always take a rucksack to keep my clothes in and I carry a zip up top which I can use to quickly wrap around if the need arises
ive got a couple of cotton sunhats that have a zip pocket in the side of the crown ,just big enough to take the car key, the kikini beach wrap is small enough to fold up and go on top of my head under the hat .
weve found a couple of beachside carparks in fuerteventura where car key in the hat is all you need for a stroll along the beach.
I had my keys, wallet and phone zipped up in my fleece pocket, the fleece on the rucksack as I walked naked. Stopped for lunch and discovered Iād left the fleece somewhere! Hiked back and found it, happily, but since then the necessaries have gone into the rucksack - not likely to lose that!
Noli illegitimi te carborundum
weve found a couple of beachside carparks in fuerteventura where car key in the hat is all you need for a stroll along the beach.
Only two?
JOhn
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionaries
having found 2 where it was possible to park and walk away to the beach without needing footwear to protect my delicate tootsies we didnt bother looking for more. š
You are like me then, I wear a hat when I am otherwise naked to shade my eyes, it is one of those Tilley hats with a pocket in the crown suitable for a car key.
Like most here I too use a small backpack, though I do more cycling/walking so just attach my shorts to my handlebars and my top sits nicely with my water bottle carrier on the bike. Whilst I would like to leave everything behind and just be able to walk totally naked, I always think it is in my best interest to have something to cover myself with should the need arise.
Davey B