06.08.2003 Latest craze: ‘boots-only hiking’
Marianne sent me this link from The Guardian just now. It appears that nude hiking (aka “boots-only hiking” or “skinny walking”) is the latest thing in the UK.
The first 10 minutes are the worst: stripping off in the middle of the wood, lacing up the ?115 Meindl Borneo boots (this takes about a quarter of an hour), taking the first tentative steps through the crunchily leaf-strewn wood. Every sound constitutes a potential threat and I became convinced that the helicopter hovering overhead has spotted something untoward (unlikely from 20ft, let alone 1,000). But gradually I relax and in a perverse (but not perverted!) way start to enjoy it.
Comedy gold…
They should come out rainy old England and come to Sweden that way they can hike for days with out seeing anyone, the Swedish Mosquito’s need some new blood.
hans - 06.08.2003 - 11:41
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