travel and rhum

Quick question. How common is it that you’ve run into naturism (nudist) while out hiking? I’ve hiked all over, mostly US and Europe, but I’ve never run into naturist on the trail. I follow another sub that is geared towards naturist hiking and it sounds like this is a common practice to hike Al’natural. I’m not advocating anything by this question, more trying to get the non-naturist opinions. How common is it? How did you react? Does this bother you and do you feel like this should be more acceptable or should there be stricter laws against it. Thanks for your time and opinions. Happy hiking!

Edit: thanks for all the replies. I didn’t realize the question was posed previously so my apologies. In summary, it doesn’t sound “common”. Skinny dipping sounds common and mostly acceptable as long as it’s done with others in mind. Hiking sounds impractical to me and most others. Overall though, it sounds like the general consensus is that the majority of the hiking community wouldn’t really care if they ran into a naked group of hikers, but a few would be traumatized for life if they saw someone naked. So not common, not practical, but whatever if it happens.

This is a follow up form my previous post in the mountaineering subreddit; https://reddit.com/r/Mountaineering/s/NIqBiZLgVw
we just gained some internet access in Gilgit.
The last 2 weeks was the craziest and most insane experience of our lives. We almost died several times, had to sleep on the dodgiest landmarks (at one point during the summit it was a knife thin piece of ice that was a vertical climb Im not joking.)
Although a good piece of the climb was not technical especially once u approach the last few hundred metres of the summit, it’s more of a brutal hike. This was a surprise from what we thought as we thought it would be a technical climb for the most part but honestly I would’ve preferred a technical climb over the hell that we had to trek through. At the last 200 metres every step we took we had to take 5 deep breaths.

We had to turn back on our first attempt because brutal AWS despite climatising for months prior in zagros mountains and caucuses, we stopped at 6000 metres and I had to turn the men back or else they would’ve died. I started waking up in the middle of my sleep shaking uncontrollably, I don’t understand why this happened but the men think it is because of anxiety attack. Even though I didn’t feel anxious exactly. We slept maybe 3-5 hours every night because conditions are too bad.
We also left our bags at camps because way too heavy for us as we struggled to breathe on the ascent. On the way down even my friend started to hallucinate which was really bad but Alhamdulilah we made it alive.
On our second attempt up we had the same weather conditions as the first time but we kept going regardless.

The reason why we did this is because we all had personal issues at home of our own, and this was our way of overcoming our demons. We shocked ourselves by making it to the top and I can already see the positive effects the summit had on our mental health. But I want to make the focus of the post on Muchu chhish.

On the way back one of our camps was completely buried in snow it literally disappeared from the face of the mountain which is very sad because I lost around 10,000USD worth of valuables.

Around 6800metres in
https://imgur.com/gallery/rtUAU3R

View at approaching 7000metres, one commenter asked for surrounding mountains so here it is
https://imgur.com/gallery/YQ8lnJp

7300metres close to summit, by the way – Muchu chhish is literally mountains on top of mountain, it’s very unusual and confuses you because you must climb multiple peaks to finally climb one peak.
https://imgur.com/gallery/8Vp8Tgd

Temperature at last camp
https://imgur.com/gallery/tUrfLkH

Summit videos
https://imgur.com/gallery/CJwih0k
https://imgur.com/gallery/6uNanVg