Tuesday, 19 January 2010

Hat, essential; pants, optional.

We've blogged before about Swiss naked hiking (and the proposed bans thereof), and the question we received most often was, "But what do people do in the winter?"

Um...this (courtesy of Christoph Bangert at the NYT):
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2 comments:

  1. KaliPamp22 January 2010 at 05:37

    YIKES. I am all warm and cozy here in good old Canada. In the house. Layered in wool!

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  2. Swiss Miss22 January 2010 at 09:33

    From the NYT:

    Konrad Hepenstrick says he almost never meets people who are bothered. “You greet them, and they greet you, though in winter, of course, many ask, ‘Aren’t you cold?’” he said, picking at a lunch of coarse, spicy Appenzeller sausage in a restaurant high on the slopes over the town. Unseasonable snow showers clouded the view of the surrounding peaks, thwarting plans for a nude hike with this reporter.

    Mr. Hepenstrick, 54, is an architect who loves to hike in the altogether. In winter, he said, he has hiked for hours in temperatures well below freezing, though he does concede the need for a hat and gloves. He has hiked in the nude for about 30 years, he said, and has crisscrossed the hills and mountains around Appenzell, as well as in France, Germany, Italy and even the Appalachians.

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