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I’m reminded of this one barefoot hippie who would do nature survival shows without shoes. I understand how it worked for him in the forest or desert with brambles and whatnot, but how does that work in an urban area?

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agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Asphalt is hot but as long as you keep moving, and you’ve built up some callouses, it’s not that bad. I always kept to the grass on the side when I could.

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- beastlykings@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Oh man, I don’t know how this could be true. I work manual labor, in sneakers. I spend all summer recreational time in either flip flops or barefoot. So while I don’t have huge callouses on my feet, I’ve got some. Not tender baby feet.
  
  But still, one day it was like 70 or 80 out, I changed out fancy clothes into shorts, but forgot to pack my flip flops. I really wanted to walk down to an event that was going on, but I didn’t want to wear black fancy shoes with my shorts. So I went barefoot on the sidewalk, about 3/4 of a mile.
  
  I did like you said and walked in the grass a lot, but man the concrete was hotter than I expected. It didn’t hurt at first, but each new step I took found freshly warmed concrete that just heated my foot more. Eventually it started to hurt, even with walking in as much grass as I could.
  
  I got to where I was going, grass covered area, and didn’t think too much of it.
  
  When I went to leave? Oh man. My feet hurt. Looking at them closely, I had several blisters on both feet. I cooked em. I couldn’t walk back, I had to call my friend to pick me up.
  
  That was on regular concrete. I cannot imagine doing that on asphalt, I wouldn’t make it a hundred feet.
  
  Maybe I really do have tender baby feet 🤔
  
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- disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Painted lines are always cooler too.
  
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steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Idk if we’re thinking of the same show but it was a gear oriented army dude and a barefoot hippy doing survival things together. The only time I saw the hippy crack was going barefoot in a blizzard lol.

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- Godric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Prolly the same one, yeah! Hippie man was going barefoot in the desert with cactus and snakes. Mad respect to him!
  
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  - steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Yeah he was honestly badass af
    
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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
all i can say is that i’ve been barefoot for a couple years now and… it’s fine? never really had an issue beyond cold and sharp gravel (especially when it’s on a hard surface)

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