Happy "Nude Year's Eve" everyone. (What a nice way to wish Skinny Trippers a great year of naturist life.)
(Now it's your turn. Please post a comment wishing those who read this a happy "Nude Year's Eve" from wherever you live.)
Kenfreehiker from Southern California.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
The Perfect Place for a Naturist to Live
The Academic Naturist posted an interesting blog about finding and buying a private place, a piece of land, where he could practice naturism (see - http://academicnaturist.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-most-expensive-suit.html ).
In the post he asked, "Have any of you been through this before? Did you find the perfect place, where you can wear your best suit anywhere you want? Do you have any tips on what to look for, or what to do to find that perfect place? Any tips on dealing with neighbors? Any tips on bargaining with realters?"
Here is my comment about this:
We also searched for a perfect place for our "private" naturist home. Then we found our happy place at Olive Dell Resort, rented a site, bought a trailer, and decided our thinking had been wrong headed.
We discovered we weren't really trying to get away from others; we only wanted to live naked around others who understood and wanted to live the same way. Olive Dell was perfect for a number of reasons, including:
- It's inexpensive (about $300 a month)
- We have lot's of area to freehike and garden nude
- We meet lots of new naturist friends who come to freehike and visit our nude garden (Dellymaze Park)
- We can swim in the pool and soak in the hot tub whenever we want and not have any upkeep
- We easily get together with naturist friends often to sing karaoke, eat, play games, etc.
- Major shopping and dining areas are just minutes away if we want to get out for a clothed time.
- We have even been able to start a business with naturist friends.
For us, it was a real revelation when we stopped looking for our own naturist haven and moved to a wonderful haven for naturists that already existed - Olive Dell Ranch - our happy place.
In the post he asked, "Have any of you been through this before? Did you find the perfect place, where you can wear your best suit anywhere you want? Do you have any tips on what to look for, or what to do to find that perfect place? Any tips on dealing with neighbors? Any tips on bargaining with realters?"
Here is my comment about this:
We also searched for a perfect place for our "private" naturist home. Then we found our happy place at Olive Dell Resort, rented a site, bought a trailer, and decided our thinking had been wrong headed.
We discovered we weren't really trying to get away from others; we only wanted to live naked around others who understood and wanted to live the same way. Olive Dell was perfect for a number of reasons, including:
- It's inexpensive (about $300 a month)
- We have lot's of area to freehike and garden nude
- We meet lots of new naturist friends who come to freehike and visit our nude garden (Dellymaze Park)
- We can swim in the pool and soak in the hot tub whenever we want and not have any upkeep
- We easily get together with naturist friends often to sing karaoke, eat, play games, etc.
- Major shopping and dining areas are just minutes away if we want to get out for a clothed time.
- We have even been able to start a business with naturist friends.
For us, it was a real revelation when we stopped looking for our own naturist haven and moved to a wonderful haven for naturists that already existed - Olive Dell Ranch - our happy place.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Naked BBQ & Freehike Video
Naked BBQ & Freehike Video (France)
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x96mla_randonue-carriere-sable-blanc_creation
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x96mla_randonue-carriere-sable-blanc_creation
Monday, December 28, 2009
Naked Life is Good at Olive Dell Ranch
Naked life is good at Olive Dell Ranch - even the weekend after Christmas.
Harrow and Kitty visited us at Olive Dell Ranch this weekend. Sunday we all weeded and cleaned up Dellymaze Park. It's looking great. We took time out for a naked lunch in the clubhouse. I dug some more on the Olive Dell Nature Trail. Later on we all hiked the trail.
Today I'll work a little more on the trail, and I think I'll take a freehike. Perhaps they'll all come along.
Harrow and Kitty visited us at Olive Dell Ranch this weekend. Sunday we all weeded and cleaned up Dellymaze Park. It's looking great. We took time out for a naked lunch in the clubhouse. I dug some more on the Olive Dell Nature Trail. Later on we all hiked the trail.
Today I'll work a little more on the trail, and I think I'll take a freehike. Perhaps they'll all come along.
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Nude Bike Riding
Has anyone reading ever taken a naked bike ride?
I was a kid when I last took a nude bike ride, late one night, down a well-traveled neighborhood street – crazy I know - I didn’t understand naturism then. However, for many people nude road and mountain biking is a totally acceptable naturist activity, as can be seen below. In fact, the World Naked Bike ride happens annually in mostly large cities around the world. (Here are a few links to photos of this event:
2009 World Naked Bike Ride - Madrid Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Jtyr1BmFA
2009 World Naked Bike Ride - London Photos http://picasaweb.google.com/duff2253/200906NakedBikeRideLondonStop# http://picasaweb.google.com/pixis140/WorldNakedBikeRideLondon2009# http://picasaweb.google.com/tart2000/NakedBikeRide#
2008 World Naked Bike Ride - Brighton Photos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAXK_W-M5Lg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIvjROMAcGM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbSg8ZqSCGc&feature=related
2007 Vancouver WNBR photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/tijuanobamako/PRONAGEN#
I was a kid when I last took a nude bike ride, late one night, down a well-traveled neighborhood street – crazy I know - I didn’t understand naturism then. However, for many people nude road and mountain biking is a totally acceptable naturist activity, as can be seen below. In fact, the World Naked Bike ride happens annually in mostly large cities around the world. (Here are a few links to photos of this event:
2009 World Naked Bike Ride - Madrid Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21Jtyr1BmFA
2009 World Naked Bike Ride - London Photos http://picasaweb.google.com/duff2253/200906NakedBikeRideLondonStop# http://picasaweb.google.com/pixis140/WorldNakedBikeRideLondon2009# http://picasaweb.google.com/tart2000/NakedBikeRide#
2008 World Naked Bike Ride - Brighton Photos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAXK_W-M5Lg&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIvjROMAcGM&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbSg8ZqSCGc&feature=related
2007 Vancouver WNBR photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/tijuanobamako/PRONAGEN#
Friday, December 25, 2009
Work on Olive Dell Nature Trail
I spent Sunday afternoon, Monday, Wednesday afternoon, and Thursday morning working nude on the new Olive Dell Nature Trail - removing brush, digging, moving rocks. I finished the completely new downhill section that ends at Dellymaze Park, and then moved over to the original section that has completely grown over. I modified this older section of the trail, making it better – less steep, and more interesting.
The new trail should be over a mile. I’m hoping to have the entire trail cleared/dug by mid-January. Then I’ll invite a local botanist from a community college to come help identify the vegetation. (It should be interesting introducing a professor to a naturist resort.) Finally, PJ and I will install signage, and hold a grand re-opening this coming spring.
I’m loving working on the Olive Dell Nature Trail (especially since I get to do the work nude). When it is complete it will certainly be the best nude nature trail at any resort in California. I hope many of my readers will visit us this year.
The new trail should be over a mile. I’m hoping to have the entire trail cleared/dug by mid-January. Then I’ll invite a local botanist from a community college to come help identify the vegetation. (It should be interesting introducing a professor to a naturist resort.) Finally, PJ and I will install signage, and hold a grand re-opening this coming spring.
I’m loving working on the Olive Dell Nature Trail (especially since I get to do the work nude). When it is complete it will certainly be the best nude nature trail at any resort in California. I hope many of my readers will visit us this year.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Valley View Hot Springs
“My wife and I go there [Valley View Hot Springs, Colorado] a number of times a year. The place is great. We are [free]hikers and do not find the trip to the upper pools difficult at all. I think it depends on the perspective if you are used to hiking mountain country or not used to it. The hike to the mine takes people from lower elevations 1 1/'2 to 2 hours up and less coming back. It is an old road for the first mile or more, and then finishes with a good hiking trail that climbs the hill to the mine. Seeing a quarter million bats come out is really something. . .
The kids will like the big swimming pool . . . The big soaking pool uphill from the big swimming pool usually has colored marbles and rocks for the kids to get (it is about 3 feet deep all over). . . There is a hot pool that is about 1 1/2 feet deep by the swimming pool and is the only "hot" pool there. They heat it with their self generated electricity. The other pools are usually 93-96 degrees. . .
The only drawback to Valley View that we find, is that there are a lot of "skinny dippers" as opposed to nudists. We call them skinny dippers because they only get nude in the pools. . . There are plenty of nudists too. We even sent the OLT folks an email several years ago (after our first visit) to ask it was really alright to go naked anywhere anytime. They said absolutely yes. Even the office is fine. . . We even went to the office the next trip and deliberately went to the office to become contributors and ask some questions. They never batted an eye. . .
My wife and I have been the only naked people in Oak House several times on winter trips . . . and nobody has ever acted funny or put out. We have also been in Oak House several times when nobody had clothes on. . .
Hiking nude to the mine or upper pools is all on the OLT property so is just fine. We have hiked with nude people to the mine in the afternoons . . . and we have hiked with clothed people while we were nude. Nobody cares, so do what you like. We like no clothes. They had a tour group at the mine once when we hiked up on a warm evening. They were not from VV but had been told that nude people were probable. We hung out nude with about 20 people with clothes on for over an hour. They had been told by their guide that no pictures of any people were allowed without the person's permission. Nobody said anything bad and they were all friendly, not put out.
We also hike on up the mountains sometimes and do it nude if the weather allows. Once you leave the OLT property you are on federal lands. In CO hiking nude on Federal lands is tolerated unless someone issues a complaint and then they have to follow up on it and find you to issue a small ticket.
On one warm hike we ran into a group of CO Mt College students that were there to work on the trail we were using (we usually stay off trails when nude hiking). We were worried for a minute and then one of them said rather loudly "looks like escapees from the hot springs." Everybody cracked up and we visited with them for awhile and hiked on up the trail with them a ways to where they were going to work next.
We have hiked nude with other folks that are like minded, and even hiked nude a whole day once with several others that never did get nude. It is nice to suit yourself about clothes and others can do the same. Should be that way all over.” – Jerry K.
The kids will like the big swimming pool . . . The big soaking pool uphill from the big swimming pool usually has colored marbles and rocks for the kids to get (it is about 3 feet deep all over). . . There is a hot pool that is about 1 1/2 feet deep by the swimming pool and is the only "hot" pool there. They heat it with their self generated electricity. The other pools are usually 93-96 degrees. . .
The only drawback to Valley View that we find, is that there are a lot of "skinny dippers" as opposed to nudists. We call them skinny dippers because they only get nude in the pools. . . There are plenty of nudists too. We even sent the OLT folks an email several years ago (after our first visit) to ask it was really alright to go naked anywhere anytime. They said absolutely yes. Even the office is fine. . . We even went to the office the next trip and deliberately went to the office to become contributors and ask some questions. They never batted an eye. . .
My wife and I have been the only naked people in Oak House several times on winter trips . . . and nobody has ever acted funny or put out. We have also been in Oak House several times when nobody had clothes on. . .
Hiking nude to the mine or upper pools is all on the OLT property so is just fine. We have hiked with nude people to the mine in the afternoons . . . and we have hiked with clothed people while we were nude. Nobody cares, so do what you like. We like no clothes. They had a tour group at the mine once when we hiked up on a warm evening. They were not from VV but had been told that nude people were probable. We hung out nude with about 20 people with clothes on for over an hour. They had been told by their guide that no pictures of any people were allowed without the person's permission. Nobody said anything bad and they were all friendly, not put out.
We also hike on up the mountains sometimes and do it nude if the weather allows. Once you leave the OLT property you are on federal lands. In CO hiking nude on Federal lands is tolerated unless someone issues a complaint and then they have to follow up on it and find you to issue a small ticket.
On one warm hike we ran into a group of CO Mt College students that were there to work on the trail we were using (we usually stay off trails when nude hiking). We were worried for a minute and then one of them said rather loudly "looks like escapees from the hot springs." Everybody cracked up and we visited with them for awhile and hiked on up the trail with them a ways to where they were going to work next.
We have hiked nude with other folks that are like minded, and even hiked nude a whole day once with several others that never did get nude. It is nice to suit yourself about clothes and others can do the same. Should be that way all over.” – Jerry K.
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