I didn't feel like driving very far for my walk today, but it's okay, I know places ❤️

In Facebook Memories this morning: "A #TravelCanada from way back - hiking in southern British Columbia 43 years ago (September 1988), when I seldom photographed any of my naturist hikes. The lack of tan lines makes me think there were many, though 🙂 #naturism #NormalizeNudity"

Freedom in the mountains a couple of days ago ❤️

What a day. Being able to still get to the Venus Mine at 75 makes me deeply pleased. This is a trail that tests people decades younger - www.strava.com/activities/1...

The secret to turning this vast area green now is water, preferably in the form of rain but there's none in the forecast. Birds and butterflies were sure happy after I watered much of it with the hose, though.

Yes, Nudistandi, you sure as hell are blocked. Just just porn, but AI porn.

I created another one for my regular pages, because part of my truth is that I am a naturist.

"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth" ~ Albert Camus (photo shot above Muncho Lake, British Columbia)

I'm still shovelling snow, but now it's for a very different reason than it has been for the past 7 months. Now I'm "shovelling my way into Spring," breaking up piles onto sun-warmed ground to get things growing weeks earlier than they would if I just let Nature take its course.

Spring arrived suddenly yesterday, after two 17-degree days - there are now buds everywhere around the property. It was my first big gardening day of the season. Whitehorse, Yukon

Today was an especially nice walk. It reached 17C/62F, the warmest day we've had in 7 months.

Wonderful walk along the Yukon River this afternoon, most of it barefoot as well ❤️

This is the photo from the Wolverine Peak Trail that I posted to my regular FB page a few minutes ago. Just enough to hopefully help #NormalizeNaturism 🙂

I'm back into scanning old documents, and I just found a very detailed trip report about a hike on the Wolverine Peak Trail at Anchorage, Alaska, in August 1990. This was my first of 23 years as driver/guide for lengthy motorcoach tours around the Yukon and Alaska. I shot 45 Kodachromes on the hike.

Today is World Naked Gardening Day, but this was my garden work yesterday - digging enough snow to get the moose-protection tents off some of the shrubs - so my celebration today might be quite limited 🙁

Finished splitting and stacking a 3-cord load of firewood this morning. Once it's dried like this for a couple of weeks, half will get moved to the basement wood room, the other half into the firewood shelter. Yes, burning is simply the final of several times firewood warms you :)

The theme of Earth Day 2026 is "Our Power, Our Planet," emphasizing the power of collective action.

What a day - that snow is 30 inches deep. I was digging my way to a tree to install a boreal owl nestbox I built (I made it - about 80 feet). The temp is 7C/45F now at 4pm. I was out in the sun for over 4 hours today - glorious! ❤️

It was so nice out today I decided to leave it out 😆 An hour of naked snow shovelling gets the tan off to a good start.

The AI commentary about nude hiking in the Yukon is SO incorrect as to just plain piss me off. 😡

It's been a brutal winter, with record-breaking cold and snow - it's rare to combine those two. Yesterday, though, it finally got warm enough in the afternoon sun to shovel snow naked for almost an hour, and the forecast is for more of that the rest of the week. 😀

Continuing my last post, I'm particularly pleased to see that my most-viewed blog post that includes nudity is "Celebrating World Naked Hiking Day the right way" - explorenorthblog.com/celebrating-... Posted 2 years ago, it still gets about 50 views per month.

I don't think I've ever really looked at stats for the many posts on my blog that include nudity to see if they're being accepted. I'm very pleased to see that they are, even ones like explorenorthblog.com/naturism-in-... that make it clear what's on the page and gets decent traffic 13 years later.

One of my short-lived business ventures. Funny story - I did a tour for a couple of young nudists in 1988, and when I went to the photo store to pick up the film I'd shot, some of which showed the 3 of us naked, both the young women who processed the film asked to go on a tour with me.

I wonder why there's been no movement to go back to the style of the original Olympics? Okay, maybe not the Winter Olympics 😆

I just checked air fare to Mexico - I guess I'll wait for my own beaches to warm up...

My heart is with the beautiful community of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, and with my friends there. Tumbler Ridge feels very much like a close neighbour right now, and I'm trying to focus on the beauty, not the horror, but I'm in tears as I write this 💔

Driving my tour van down the frozen Yukon River at Dawson City during the Yukon Quest sled dog race on February 8, 2017.

One of my articles with many photos was published in "Going Natural" magazine 6 years ago. (I also posted this in my non-naturist accounts at Bluesky and Facebook - #NormalizeNudity)

At least it's warm(ish) - 0C/32F - though I was only out for 20 minutes 😀

Liard Hot Springs on the Alaska Highway is a very busy place in the summer. In the winter, during a full moon, it is superb ❤️

Some of the material I save is social-commentary stuff. I wonder how many of these 1944 Cannon Towels ads were tacked up in secret spots by women whose husbands or boyfriends were away from home. It certainly would have raised some eyebrows in those days!

An interview with me in a large regional magazine 20 years ago - www.yukonalaska.com/nudehiking/u...

If the warmer temps and no new snow continue, I may catch up from this record-breaking winter. Like if they continue for another 3 months. 😀

Life in Greenland makes people tough and keeps them fit, able to ward off any invaders. I'm extremely lucky to have been able to experience that world last year - this was shot during a hike at Paamiut, where clothes weren't needed for a few hours.

Snowshoeing at Summit Lake, 80 miles south of home, in mid May.

The first time you slip and fall while snowshoeing naked teaches you to be MUCH more careful about how you walk! 😆

Come on, Summer!!

It's been a tough winter - for weeks it was too cold to even get to the hot tub. Today I made up for some lost naked time 😂

Bryant Lake, BC, just a few miles from the Alaska border, is on the short list of places I need to get back to when it warms up. It's -27C at the moment, with 32 inches of snow on the ground - that's much colder than normal, and much more snow than usual.

December 11th was officially declared as International Mountain Day by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2002. (this photo was posted on all my social media pages today - #NormalizeNudity )

The silver lining is that when you get old enough, you no longer remember having pain-free days.

We used to think about that, but every time we found a place we thought we could live, there were too many people. Few people want to live here for some reason 😁

I'll be keeping a few layers of textiles on for a while - even the hot tub isn't an option (it got a foot of snow on it the last few hours, too). That -38C on Thursday night may mean -40+ here - the record for that date is -46.2C (that's -51.2F), set in 1977.

"Have you ever met a clothed hiker?" is a common question I get. I've just edited an old blog post to clarify that I was hiking naked all day, and I did meet one person. #NormalizeNudity explorenorthblog.com/hiking-summi... (one of the finest hikes I've ever done, with 31 photos)

Hiking in places like Mine Mountain just north of Skagway, Alaska, requires well-developed off-trail navigation skills. I posted this on both my non-naturist pages this morning - I always enjoy it when someone asks if I'm naked (so I can reply "if you have to ask, does it matter?) 🙂

I'm pleased to see one of my favourite historians describing another little-known (or long-forgotten) bit of Vancouver-area history, including acknowledgement and perhaps even celebration of the fact that nudity was common in counter-culture communities of that period. evelazarus.com/a-short-hist...

It's cold and dreary (-11C) but I have my SAD light and hot tub, and the wood stove is cranked so I can deal with Father Winter's long visit.

One of the realities of climate change in the Yukon is that the clear skies and deep cold of 30 years ago are gone - winters are much warmer and the skies are often cloudy. That makes a full-spectrum SAD light an important self-care tool for some of us to deal with the darkness.

Bare Granite. Kodachrome, 1989.