Dual Survival Returns

Here’s just a reminder that Dual Survival’s third season starts tomorrow, New Year’s Day. It starts with an introduction to Cody’s new partner, Joe Teti, and is followed with the season opener.

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Favorite Photos: Animals

Here are more of the favorite photos I’ve taken for this blog.

Today we’ll look at animals.

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Favorite Photos: Scenery #2

Today I’m continuing my look at some of my favorite pictures that I’ve taken and that have appeared on this blog.

These are more scenery shots from the hikes I’ve done (barefoot, of course).

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Favorite Photos: Plants

Let me continue my showing of my favorites of the photos I have taken that have appeared on this blog.

Today we’re going to go with plants (and for the purpose of this, I’m going to include fungi, even though I know full well they are completely different).

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Favorite Photos: Scenery #1

As we end up the year, I’m going to go through the favorite
pictures that I’ve taken and posted here.

To begin with, a first look of some scenery photos from my hikes.

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Merry Christmas

 

 

And a song, Barefoot Santa Claus, from Sonny James.

 

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Call to (Jury) Duty

I’ve written before about the possibility of doing jury duty barefoot. But it was fairly generic.

Let’s go on and look at a “hypothetical” situation.

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Ice Cream for the Soul

We had that snow storm go through on Friday. (Draco, the Weather Channel called it.)

Well worth a barefoot tromp.

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Barefoot Homiletics

Most of the poems that I’ve posted here are from the late 1800s or early 1900s, as the time of “barefoot boys” as the norm was starting to fade as the country urbanized. That’s not to say that it died out completely (the second “great decline” happened in the 1970s or so).

Anyways, here is a much more contemporary poem about bare feet.

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An Old Favorite

It’s always fun to hike at an old favorite. And this time of year, being barefoot can sometimes provoke a bit of comment.

I hadn’t been to Old Man’s Cave and Parrish Rocks for a while, so that’s where I went yesterday.

What a great hike.

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More on Clear Creek Indian Trails

Last week I wrote a bit on the Indian Trails that used to pass through Clear Creek Metro Park. Today I’m reproducing a column from Charles Goslin that didn’t appear in Crossroads and Fence Posts.

In the column he describes walking from the intersection of the two Clear Creek Indian Trails to Lancaster.

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Beating the Spread

There’s a before-and-after photo going around showing the change in toe spread after 28 months of running barefoot.

Here it is.

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Colorful Characters — Abram Lahdenpera

Here’s another in my series of Colorful Characters, that is, various barefooters in history (or currently).

Today’s barefooter is from the early 1900s.

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A Visit to Whitehead Gorge

Yesterday was a scheduled Metro-5-0 hike at Clear Creek Metro Park. The Metro-5-0 hikes are aimed at the over-50 crowd (though they don’t check IDs).

This one was up to “The Gorge”, but I’m trying to convince them to start calling it “The Whitehead Gorge”.

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A Boy After My Own Heart

Here’s a story from the Hutchinson (Kansas) News Herald from January 1947. It’s about a barefoot boy who knows what he prefers . . . even in winter.

There’s a real contrast with the way this would have turned out today.

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