Tramping as a hobby.

[Buzzulepuff]

Is there anyone here who is into tramping in a big way. (Maybe called mountain hiking overseas). Im just starting to get into it and wouldnt mind some tips etc. It would be awesome to combine naturism and tramping as one, one day but would like to do that as a group or else people would think im weird if approached by anyone.

[Density]

that is actually something worth doing on occasions. makes it seem like a Lord of the Rings adventure

[NudieDaniel]

Here's a few from the FKK Museum since I don't have enough person experience. I do know of people who hiked nude in the Waitakere Ranges so I would think there are plenty of opportunities in quieter tracks in National Parks around Canterbury or the upper South Island

   

• Naked hiking Tips 1 → walking shoes
    Of course you can walk barefoot - no question.
    But most of us prefer solid footwear. The selection of the right hiking boots is however not so simple, here one is in specialist shops then very well cared for. Hiking boots should not be too heavy, but give the joints a good hold. You should also not press - so you can also avoid unpleasant and painful blisters at the foot.
    The feet are the parts of the body, which are often neglected by many people. As long as they "work", you can go without complaints, you rarely think of a caring care and / or the right shoes.
    Barefoot hiking is of course healthy, but does not meet everyone's taste.

    • Naked hiking Tips 2 → Society
    Just wandering naked is fun - with a friend, a girlfriend or even a group walking naked ... but makes even more fun.
    Such a hike can then also be very sociable, since one is traveling with the same mind. You can exchange experiences, give tips and so on.
    Another advantage is that you can not blame several naked people who are naked in nature in the same circumstance that they are naked, no criminal offense (exhibitionism).
    Apart from this, probably most textile hikers are looking forward to a meeting with a group of naked people - there is talk again. Also, one is more or more brave in a group, for example when it comes to deviating from the hiking route.
    Schedules for nude hiking and more nude-actions can be found here: Nacktivitäten Calendar

    • Naked hiking Tips 3 → Marking
    Especially when one walks naked as a man alone, this often has a "bitter taste" when encounters with other, textile hikers. The opinion is too fast that one is a dangerous "moralist", an exhibitionist.
    An enlightening conversation works miracles ... His intention to express his clear and unambiguous will and show that one is "only" a nudist and has no evil or bad intentions, can be with a corresponding cap (for example) Continue to express.
    For this, you simply get a base cap without a label and can be embroidered in a tailoring / sewing a corresponding lettering. For example, only the abbreviation "FKK" (as I have on my cap), or simply with the word "nude hikers" embroider (more obvious it hardly goes). By the way you also have an exclusive hiking cap.
    Furthermore, a corresponding flyer is very helpful. It is a short and concise explanation of why one walks naked.
             The text fits on a index card.
    4x the text on a DIN A4 sheet

    Download here as PDF:
    Note 1
    The text of the flyer is not mine, but from the side of "man and nature", which no longer is only online. Therefore, I can also no longer understand from whom this text originates.

    Note 2
    On the back, you should note your contact data, if you would like to contact you for further information, or also interesting websites on the subject.

    Note 3
    The caps can be easily ordered online (search term → embroidery). If you order together, you can also reach a volume discount.

    • Naked hiking Tips 4 → Board
    No matter how long the hike may be, something for the physical well should be there. Of course, not a "heavy diet" - a few energy bars are usually quite sufficient. And of course, take something to drink. Especially if it is so hot. For in exertion and heat, of course, one also has a greater loss of liquid which must be compensated for.
    Expensive isotonic drinks do not have to, simple mineral water does it too.

    Particularly migratory diabetics must be careful that they in a strenuous hike (and walks can be exhausting), not placed in a dangerous low blood sugar - therefore also take the blood glucose test device and a glucagon emergency kit.

    • Naked hiking Tips 5 → Diseases
    Also not quite healthy people like to walk (naked) - in the normal case this is also usually not a problem.
    Immigrants should be inaugurated and informed how to help them in an emergency.
    For example, how in the case of dangerous hypoglycemia (low blood sugar) supplies diabetics glucose or glucagon emergency kit properly used - or how in a heart attack (myocardial infarction) handles the nitro spray - and, of course, where the appropriate means (if one She hopefully brings along). "So what does not happen," may some think now, but is not true. On a nude hike suffered a hiker a fatal heart attack (if I remember correctly, was the 2015 - I was not there).

    • Naked hiking Tips 6 → ticks Card
    It is small, it is light and it is incredibly handy - just on hikes: the tick card
    It should not be missing in any rucksack, because the ticks, these little beasts, which can cause so much disaster, are everywhere. Not only in fields, but also in the grasses along the edge of the path.
    The tick card is easy to handle and safer than special tick tongs, especially when the tick settles on body sites that are difficult to reach. As long as the tick has not stung yet, it can be so "wiped". It can only be dangerous when it is fixed.

    If a tick has already been staked and you removed it, you should not "dispose" it immediately, but in a small container. To be sure, you can tick the tick - there are institutes that examine the ticks for transmissible diseases. More on www.zecken.de .

    And the small tick card, which is available for almost 2 euros in the pharmacy, is a really useful helper, because even a spine, for example of a wasp, can be easily removed.
    More about this and other "pests" there: HERE .

    • Naked hiking Tips 7 → Signal Whistle
    Why should you take a pipe with you on a hike? For an emergency!
    One point is that you do not have mobile phone reception. You can not leave your own voice for a long time, since it is easier to use a pipe. The tone is "penetrating" and can be heard even more than the voice.
    On the other hand, a whistle can also help if you have a surprising and unpleasant encounter with wild animals. Most (!) Wild animals would escape before this unknown and unpleasant sound.
    Such an emergency or survival whistle is already available in the shops for hiking equipment from € 1.
    There is even an emergency signal: 6x shortly after each other whistle, 1 minute wait, then again 6x whistle ... and so on.

    • Naked hiking Tips 8 → Power Bank
    Who travels with the help of his smartphone and corresponding navigation app, knows the problem: the battery does not last long. You can almost see the loading beam as it moves 0% direction.
    Here it helps to have a "spare battery" (= power bank) with it. With a large power bank (around the 15 €) you can recharge a smartphone (absolutely empty) 6x well, which should be enough for a longer hike.
    There are also smaller power banks around the 5 €, with which you can recharge a smartphone about 2x.
    This works, of course, only if you do not forget the charging cable at home !!!

    • Naked hiking Tips 9 → framework program
    Family walks are usually a special challenge, because it is usually quite boring for children to "just wander" a stretch - some children will like it, but most of them will not.
    Here it is advisable to add an additional supporting program in the hike, natural games during the breaks would be just an idea.
    From the course times deviate, into the forest inside and for example collecting pine cones (for crafting in autumn and winter), but also the opportunity to explain to the children the nature (why is the moss on the trees only on one side and how You can orient yourself to it - and so on). To such a "natural hour" you have to prepare as an adult, of course, in a natural way, so there are different APPs for the smartphone, which help here.
    The hike is also to be an experience for the children, so they have fun and look forward to the next hike.
    But even if we are adults without children, we should stop by again and again, in order to let nature and landscape have a real impact ... and to enjoy.
    If you walk alone, you can and should take the time.

    • Naked hiking Tips 10 → The first hike
    For the new ones among the hikers, the very first hike should not be too much of a challenge. Do not begin with a 10 or 20 kilometer long hike, but choose a shorter route for the beginning. Experienced hiking organizers plan the hiking route so that you can "shorten" if necessary (so I have already experienced it). So if you have something to do with the length of the route, you can cut the route yourself.
    Nothing is worse for you than when you say, 6 kilometers, that one leaves the forces, but you also know that still lie 4 kilometers in front of you.
    An unwritten law, or we call it "code of honor" states: "We'll go out together and come together to" - there is no one left behind alone. There is always someone, who then the abbreviation with one goes.
    So first of all start with a short hiking trail ... and then slowly "work up".

    • Naked hiking Tips 11 → loincloth
    Should it happen to happen, however, to a rather unfortunate encounter with other, textile hikers, you can quickly get a loincloth around your nakedness. A small piece of fabric on a slightly longer cord (so long that it reaches the waist) should be enough. Handle-ready, for example in a side pocket of the backpack, is thus prepared for the "case of cases". I myself have an old, short gymnastics, which I can also move quickly over the hiking boots.

    Note:
    If other textile hikers are already in sight, do not begin to hectic and hurried, join the loincloth, wear a gymnastics suit, or escape into the bushes. Such a behavior gives the impression that one would want to "cover-up" something that is forbidden, which are not nudist wanderings.
    Better then remain in the state in which one finds oneself: naked - friendly greet and go on.

    • Naked hiking Tips 12 → camera and / or binoculars
    If you have a smartphone with you, you are in principle nowadays already equipped with a quite powerful camera. The smartphone is not enough for demanding nature photography. If you see wild animals at a distance, you only have with a corresponding telephoto lens (zoom) a real chance to achieve good picture results. A small tripod, for example a clamping stand, is also extremely useful and also sufficient. For hikes you always find somewhere somewhere, such a tripod firmly clamped. Also, it is not too big or too heavy - so it fits well into the backpack.
    However, if you do not necessarily want to have pictures, then a binoculars is enough.

    • Naked hiking Tips 13 → "Lint roller"
    Why should you take a "lint" role on a hike?
    A lint roller is incredibly useful because we use at the end of a hike, the adhesive surface to rest on the body herumkriechendes vermin - especially: ticks - to remove. Ticks do not immediately sting when they can get on / to the body. First look for the right spot (veins running smoothly under the skin, thin skin, warm and dark areas). Only then do they bite - as long as they wander ... and on the body. With the lint roller you can also quickly and easily at body positions that you can not otherwise reach or see - the back. However, the use of a lint roller does not replace the intensive search for ticks.
    With the lint roller one can remove only those ticks, which have not yet stabbed.

    Important:
    Ticks, which have already pierced, can not be removed naturally with a lint roller. The tick card or a special tick tong is used for this.

    • Naked hiking Tips 14 → Arm Bag
    Many Nackwanderer would also like to do without a backpack, then carry car keys and identification card around the neck - but it is also different ... with an arm pocket.
    Here, the most necessary things fit in: car keys, personal ID, small money, a normal cigarette box, lighter, chewing gum - in any case "small stuff", which one needs on the way on a hike. Thanks to the velcro closure, the bag fits very well on (almost) every upper arm. However, if you do not like the bag, you can wear it on the ankle.
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[Buzzulepuff]

Cheers for the tips there. I went on my first tramp today but the weather was drizzly and cold and was with a group of textiled so no naturism tramping still good though.

[cc71]

I am into tramping

[Buzzulepuff]

I am into tramping

Awesome. Have you done it in a naturist state.

[cc71]

No, where I tramp the weather is too capricious and hypothermia is a real risk.