Why Not to Bushwalk Barefoot

[jwalker]

Hmm, beer causing kidney stones.....I could be in trouble.

This topic just took me back to 05 when one of our party climbed Mt Roland barefoot. No joke!

From memory his feet got a little knocked around but he insisted that was the way he liked doing things.

[tasadam]

Way's to get around it 1/Brew your own. 2/Drink preservative/additive free beer. 3/ Drink it at room temperature.

4. Drink wine
5. Drink coffee.
6. Don't drink...
7. Have your kidneys removed (no kidneys = no kidney stones) (ok that's thinking too far out of the square)

Still sounds silly to me though - a bit like bushwalking barefoot. (had to bring it back on topic somehow)

[north-north-west]

How you can go barefoot in Tas for any but a few days a year mystifies me anyway?

I grew up down there and my mother had a major job getting shoes on my feet any time of the year. Would still rather go barefoot than wear anything but the feet have become a bit more sensitive to low temperatures, and a bit more accustomed to being covered with great whacking mobs of wool and/or leather. Still wear as little as I can get away with, but.

I wear socks with my sandals,
You do that when you're old
And care less 'bout the scandals
Than your tootsies getting cold.

[tasadam]

I'd sooner bushwalk barefoot than end up with feet like THIS from too small a footwear... So make sure your boots fit!
Slightly gross warning.

[north-north-west]

It takes more than just undersized footwear to achieve that. When the girls are fairly young they break quite a few bones, fold the feet around and then bind them, so they heal in that shape.

Sick.

[stepbystep]

Way's to get around it 1/Brew your own. 2/Drink preservative/additive free beer. 3/ Drink it at room temperature.

4. Drink wine acceptable
5. Drink coffee. with whiskey-acceptable
6. Don't drink...hmmmm....not acceptable
7. Have your kidneys removed (no kidneys = no kidney stones) (ok that's thinking too far out of the square)....if the price is right, I hear the Israelis pay well

[iandsmith]

Amazing how these topics get turned around. To add to the confusion there used to be a lady near Beecroft in Sydney and she was an avid bushwalker who ALWAYS went barefoot. I have heard that walking barefeet is better for your feet......unless of course you step on sharp things!
The lady in question wrote a book but I just don't have the other information to hand as yet.
Though she was a professional woman she was also a greenie and tried to stop development and, if my memory serves me correctly, she was "done in" as the saying goes.
Cheers all

[tas-man]

Amazing how these topics get turned around. To add to the confusion there used to be a lady near Beecroft in Sydney and she was an avid bushwalker who ALWAYS went barefoot. I have heard that walking barefeet is better for your feet......unless of course you step on sharp things!
The lady in question wrote a book but I just don't have the other information to hand as yet.
Though she was a professional woman she was also a greenie and tried to stop development and, if my memory serves me correctly, she was "done in" as the saying goes.
Cheers all

Are you talking about Dorothy "Dot" Butler aka "The Bare-Foot Bushwalker"?
If so, her 1992 book "The Bare-Foot Bushwalker" is reviewed here - http://www.greenleft.org.au/1992/41/3964
Her obituary is here - http://www.smh.com.au/news/obituaries/w ... 98225.html
. . . . her daughter talks about her in an ABC interview here - http://blogs.abc.net.au/tasmania/2008/0 ... t-but.html

A fascinating lady

An extended tribute to her has been edited by the Armidale Bushwalkers Club here - http://www.armidalebushwalkers.org/PDF/ ... ribute.pdf

[stepbystep]

Just had a lengthy discussion with the mother-in-law who assures me the whole cold concrete thing, is to do with cooling of the blood that then flows past the kidneys, without having enough time to warm up again.
Apparently it has to do with the difference in air-to-surface temperatures.
Natural surfaces at mother earths temp, is no drama....see that's why we love mother earth for giving us all the good things, so bushwalk at will, with whatever footwear takes your fancy