Had a nice 7 mile walk in Sherwood Forest this afternoon. Temperature 7 degrees C but a little sunshine at times made it feel warmer. There are usually piles of frog spawn in all of the puddles by now but so far none this year. I did find a couple of frogs in one little puddle so I guess it will be everywhere in the next few days. Sadly most of the puddles dry up before the tadpoles reach maturity. I only saw about half a dozen people at a distance and only met two people close enough to say hello. The forecast has been very unreliable lately so I just go out regardless with the intention of getting dressed if it gets too cold.Somehow that rarely happens.

Managed a couple of hours of naked walking this afternoon, was very quiet out. May be every one was watching the rugby... I forgot it was on.. derrr.
See what you mean about the lack of frog spawn although, my little wild life pond is full of it.
Temperature was great today so didn't feel cold at all. I new I was alone on the common when I came face to face with a deer and two minutes after that a fox. Was very peaceful out today and I love it like that,

Managed a couple of hours of naked walking this afternoon, was very quiet out. May be every one was watching the rugby... I forgot it was on.. derrr.
See what you mean about the lack of frog spawn although, my little wild life pond is full of it.
Temperature was great today so didn't feel cold at all. I new I was alone on the common when I came face to face with a deer and two minutes after that a fox. Was very peaceful out today and I love it like that,

You didn't find the little pool in a tyre track full of frog spawn. I found it yesterday and took a bucket full of it home to put in my pond. The water always dries up before they turn into frogs and it just leaves a black mass of dried up tadpoles. I suspect that there will be loads of it all over after today.
Glad you were able to experience the wildlife that I often see, hope you were able to get as close I do, animals don't seem so scared of naked people. I guess they don't really know what we are. When I was out yesterday I met a man and a woman. She asked me if there was a naturist place round here as she said she often see naturists while out walking. I told her there was. I just didn't tell her it was my house.

No I diidn't see any frog spawn in any of the pools. The deer I saw was no more than 10 feet away from me,it just looked me in the eye and carried on chewing it never moved away,as you say probably couldn't work me out but as no bright clothing was on show wasn't frightened at all. Wasn't bothered about my dog either.
I'll be out later today after I've been and seen my mother. I know I'll have to strip off again because I can't stop myself.

I'll be out later today after I've been and seen my mother. I know I'll have to strip off again because I can't stop myself.

I know what you mean I am the same, I often think its going to be too cold, I will keep my clothes on but off they come and I cant bring myself to put them back on again no matter how cold it gets. I couldn't get out today, had to go shopping with clothes on, ug.

I had a 10 mile naked walk in Sherwood Forest today. It started off a little sunny but that soon disappeared and it turned into wall to wall cloud. While I was out I passed a man and a woman who were bird spotting. I crossed the path of a man within a matter of a couple of feet and he just said hello and carried on walking as he would have done if I was clothed. After a couple of miles a very large black Labrador came bounding towards me and nearly knocked me over by diving at my chest with its from paws, it continued to jump up at me and its paws were all over me. I think it though it was trying to be friendly but it was very boisterous and I ended up with muddy paw marks all over my body. This continued for several minutes and I could hear a female voice calling the dog but it just wouldn’t leave me even though I walked off away from its owner for some distance. It clearly wasn’t going to leave me alone so I had to turn round and walk back towards it owner. I had to do this three times before it eventually went back to her. After about a mile I encountered three young ladies on horses. They stepped off the path to let me pass and smiled and said hello as I walked past them. A little further on I met a couple of foresters who were marking out trees to be chopped down, they were both very friendly and commented that I must have skin like leather to be able to withstand the cold weather. A little later I passed a man walking towards me with his dog, he just smiled said hello and carried on walking. Then I met a young lady with two white Yorkshire terriers, one of them barked at me and come towards me. I made a fuss of it which always works well with owners even though I would love to say why can’t you keep your dogs under control. Anyway it’s worth keeping thoughts to yourself sometimes and she smiled and said hello. I also saw one or two people in the distance at times but no one seemed to take much notice.
I just thought I would write this to provide some idea of what typically happens when I go out walking naked. It appears to me that people are much less likely to create a fuss than most naturist think, the more we get out there the more acceptable it will become.

Gildo you are an ambassador to our past time. I myself, deliberately go walking when I know the least amount of people are going to be about. Although having said that I'm not bothered about being seen at all, but do feel a little uncomfortable when having to pass walkers at a close proximity and face to face.
I must also admit to walking with the dog off the lead but under control (mostly)
I somehow don't think it would look/feel right to walk the common and forests totally naked but holding the dog on a lead.  :-

I had a 10 mile naked walk in Sherwood Forest today. It started off a little sunny but that soon disappeared and it turned into wall to wall cloud. While I was out I passed a man and a woman who were bird spotting. I crossed the path of a man within a matter of a couple of feet and he just said hello and carried on walking as he would have done if I was clothed. After a couple of miles a very large black Labrador came bounding towards me and nearly knocked me over by diving at my chest with its from paws, it continued to jump up at me and its paws were all over me. I think it though it was trying to be friendly but it was very boisterous and I ended up with muddy paw marks all over my body. This continued for several minutes and I could hear a female voice calling the dog but it just wouldn’t leave me even though I walked off away from its owner for some distance. It clearly wasn’t going to leave me alone so I had to turn round and walk back towards it owner. I had to do this three times before it eventually went back to her. After about a mile I encountered three young ladies on horses. They stepped off the path to let me pass and smiled and said hello as I walked past them. A little further on I met a couple of foresters who were marking out trees to be chopped down, they were both very friendly and commented that I must have skin like leather to be able to withstand the cold weather. A little later I passed a man walking towards me with his dog, he just smiled said hello and carried on walking. Then I met a young lady with two white Yorkshire terriers, one of them barked at me and come towards me. I made a fuss of it which always works well with owners even though I would love to say why can’t you keep your dogs under control. Anyway it’s worth keeping thoughts to yourself sometimes and she smiled and said hello. I also saw one or two people in the distance at times but no one seemed to take much notice.
I just thought I would write this to provide some idea of what typically happens when I go out walking naked. It appears to me that people are much less likely to create a fuss than most naturist think, the more we get out there the more acceptable it will become.

Inspiring stuff as usual, chapeau!

Tempted to get out around the common myself sometime, but there are a few jobs coming up with the change of management there, and any interview I might get would probably best not begin with recognising me from a naked walk.

Just a thought, ever tried Clumber? Or perhaps a little too busy, despite how open-minded people can be?

I had a 10 mile naked walk in Sherwood Forest today. It started off a little sunny but that soon disappeared and it turned into wall to wall cloud. While I was out I passed a man and a woman who were bird spotting. I crossed the path of a man within a matter of a couple of feet and he just said hello and carried on walking as he would have done if I was clothed. After a couple of miles a very large black Labrador came bounding towards me and nearly knocked me over by diving at my chest with its from paws, it continued to jump up at me and its paws were all over me. I think it though it was trying to be friendly but it was very boisterous and I ended up with muddy paw marks all over my body. This continued for several minutes and I could hear a female voice calling the dog but it just wouldn’t leave me even though I walked off away from its owner for some distance. It clearly wasn’t going to leave me alone so I had to turn round and walk back towards it owner. I had to do this three times before it eventually went back to her. After about a mile I encountered three young ladies on horses. They stepped off the path to let me pass and smiled and said hello as I walked past them. A little further on I met a couple of foresters who were marking out trees to be chopped down, they were both very friendly and commented that I must have skin like leather to be able to withstand the cold weather. A little later I passed a man walking towards me with his dog, he just smiled said hello and carried on walking. Then I met a young lady with two white Yorkshire terriers, one of them barked at me and come towards me. I made a fuss of it which always works well with owners even though I would love to say why can’t you keep your dogs under control. Anyway it’s worth keeping thoughts to yourself sometimes and she smiled and said hello. I also saw one or two people in the distance at times but no one seemed to take much notice.
I just thought I would write this to provide some idea of what typically happens when I go out walking naked. It appears to me that people are much less likely to create a fuss than most naturist think, the more we get out there the more acceptable it will become.

Inspiring stuff as usual, chapeau!

Tempted to get out around the common myself sometime, but there are a few jobs coming up with the change of management there, and any interview I might get would probably best not begin with recognising me from a naked walk.

Just a thought, ever tried Clumber? Or perhaps a little too busy, despite how open-minded people can be?

I often walk round Clumber naked,  but not near the chapel or round the lake or cricket field. A few of my longer walks go through parts of Clumber. We once stayed on the caravan site there and I went out walking naked every day for a week from the caravan site. I have occasionally met people who work for Clumber when they are setting out marathon areas or cleaning areas up. I have never had any adverse reactions from them. A few years ago I met with a warden and told him I was a naturist and walked Clumber. He was ok about it and told me he would let other officials know, I have always assumed that helped.

Its encouraging to read of the responses you get from people you meet while hiking naked. Is also really good to read the general attitudes on here towards a wonderful activity. It does feel right to be naked in natural places.

When we first started doing it we were quite cautious, picking routes where we could see if anyone was nearby and either covering up or getting off of the path until they had passed. Inevitably we had a few surprise encounters around blind corners, we'd decided that we'd remain nude beforehand, as we feel that covering up when its obvious implies that we think nudity is wrong, when its the exact opposite of how we feel. After a few passing comments along the lines of 'its a nice day for it' we started to worry less about being seen. We didn't want to impose our nudity on others but became more and more convinced that once we were a few hundred meters away from parking spots the walkers we met were like us, there for the nature and a few naked walkers were only being natural.

Over time we've had a few encounters where eye contact was not made once we were close and our greetings were not returned. But we have had some very positive encounters - 'good for you' and 'wish we had the nerve to be naked' short conversations to 20 minute discussions about naturism. Once we get a positive response to our nudity we're open to stopping if they seem so inclined. We have long been used to chatting with textiles while wandering nude beaches, standing naked in the countryside and putting the world to rights, or wondering what a type of fungii or moth is called with clothed nature lovers is no different to our experiences while naked at the beach.

Just back from a lovely 8 mile naked walk in Sherwood Forest. Sun shone much of the time and it was a balmy 11 degree C. There weren't many people around but saw one or two in the distance. I was out walking for 2 hours 10 minutes

I was out today too. Got back in about 6.15 after a couple of hours of walking didn,'t see another sole till back round the tree area.
The sun was lovely and not cold at all today was a bit chillier  yesterday. Really enjoyed the walk both days though

I was out today too. Got back in about 6.15 after a couple of hours of walking didn,'t see another sole till back round the tree area.
The sun was lovely and not cold at all today was a bit chillier  yesterday. Really enjoyed the walk both days though

I was out yesterday afternoon as well. One of these days we will probably bump into each other.

Yes I,m sure we will, it's not that big an area. I mostly walk across the common and circle round it's many paths. I do occasionally go into the forest at the North West side towards Meden Vale but to be honest I do prefer the open space of the common rather than being sheltered in the forest.

Another lovely day and another great walk in nice sunny weather 9.28 miles in 2 ¼ hours. While out today a couple of cyclist passed me and said hello, I met a lady with 3 dogs who smiled and said hello, a young lady with a small dog who saw me and actually waited for me to catch up with her for a chat. When we met she said wow you are brave in this weather, I asked her if she was ok with me being naked and she said wow yes no problem I think it is amazing. I met a guy sitting on a log who gave me a cheery hello and commented how brave I was in this cold weather and wished me good luck as I left him. I passed an old couple sitting on a bench and they were very smiley and friendly. This is typical of the sort of responses I usually get.
Here is a link that should show where I went. link to walk

I would have included a GPX file for anyone who wants to download a route to a navigation device, but this forum does not support it.