It is warm enough in the California winter desert to experience the pleasures of clothes-free exploring. This small group scouted a trail we will use again with a bigger group at a later date. There were parking spots next to the highway, then a short walk around the first bend to naked freedom! No one else was on the trail that day. On-camera: Amber, Auto, Dusty, Cody, Ron
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Naked Hiking in the Desert
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Naked Hiking in the Desert
gallery-1 152 photos by BigJim and Nomad Ron, the hiking guide took a handful of us on a trail through the Mecca Hills near Palm Springs, California.
gallery-2 16 photos by Nomad These images were taken with the Fisheye camera by Lumography, an inexpensive 35mm camera. It's pretty cool!
gallery-3 139 photos by Nomad Amber and Auto take their own intimate hike in the hills near the town of Desert Hot Springs.
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So far, most outings have been in the San Francisco area. This one was a couple hours west of Los Angeles. The main trip was a shoot at the Seamountain Inn (photos appear as another event) which was only in the morning.
A few of the people agreed to a hike in the afternoon in an area called the Mecca Hills, not too far away. Our guide was Ron, who I had made contact with through a naked hiking website. The third gallery with Auto and Amber was actually shot the day before. I had tried to organize a group to go to Deep Creek Hot Springs. I could only get 2 couples to sign up in the time I had, and one was a no-show. We decided to go anyway but as we got to the Bowen Ranch entrance to the trail the weather was turning treacherous.
So we just drove on a couple hours to the town of Desert Hot Springs and found this little valley to shoot in. So it became a shoot with just the two of them. Every outing is a good learning experience. Though the number of people in this sequence is less than I really want, it still was worthwhile. For these kind of outings I went on to aim for groups around 10-13 people including myself and maybe 2 other photographers.
