We may meet “textiled” hikers on the way in, but we typically brazen it out, that it was the natural way to be and do not cover up unless we can see that it is a family or largish group. If there are a fair number of cars, we wait until we are a mile or two from the parking lot. If there are only 1 or 2 cars in the lot, we get naked soon. We get to a trailhead fairly early (like by 9 AM) before most hikers. Strictly it is illegal to hike naked almost anywhere, including the national parks and forests, as county indecent exposure laws apply, but in practice, skinny-dipping and even nude hiking are tolerated in more wilderness-y areas, a few miles away from a parking lot or campground. The legality of nude hiking is ambiguous, even here in liberal Washington. We usually hike on weekdays, when we are less likely to encounter families with children or large groups. One of our favorite hikes was to Scenic Hot Springs, off US2 near Stevens Pass, but these are temporarily closed. We’re all in the Seattle area, so we mainly hike in the Cascades mountains or foothills to the east, either off I-90 or US2, but sometimes farther south (Mount Rainier) or in the North Cascades, or even in eastern Washington. We are now up to an informal group of a dozen guys, who in varying combinations, hike almost every week in the summer (actually May through October, even earlier sometimes) and we are affiliated with a larger naturist group, Sun Lovers Under Gray Skies (SLUGS), with gals joining in on a few hikes. But the sheer sense of freedom and naturalness was so great that this was the beginning of years of great nude hiking ever since. We have been hiking naked for years, but always alone, until a couple of us connected on a beautiful fall day in 1999, hiking to Lake Lillian in the Cascade Mountains.Įven then, we didn’t get naked until we were really remote in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness east of Seattle. Nude hiking in the Cascades is one of a kind adventure.
Nudist resorts and nude beaches are terrific, but up a notch in risk and adventure is when you are likely to meet clothed hikers – and rangers, on private land, or county, state, and federal rangeland, forests, and parks. Naked in Nature in Washington State Naked hiking is becoming more popular, especially in our national parks.
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