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idk, i personally found that in really crowdy places the snow is always super dirty, and pretty often treated with chemicals. not very fun to me.

thank you! oh, by the way, as far as i remember some time ago, maybe last winter, you said somewhere in comments that you were planning to upload a video of your siberian adventures to youtube. looks like it hasn't happened yet, have you changed your mind?

@@fetterlesswanderer ciao....i have change my mind because in the past TH-cam deleded many of my video because were too''extreme'' ....so i will publish mu video in another platform....

Recently I slipped and fell on ice under the snow while barefoot.

@@antilugin6981 Hope there was no injury. Ice and snow develop such a huge variety of textures. Always fun to experience.

in this video the snow on the road felt like it was rather half-melted into ice, not just poured onto it, so it didn't feel slippery at all. but yeah, i recently saw the precise example of light snow powder lying on top of slick ice, with some prints suggesting multiple people have managed to slip over there.

@@archiescottincny I wasn't hurt at all, it was even funny. But when I slipped and fell on an icy road in rubber boots at the beginning of this winter, even a good tread didn't save me, it was painful. And bare soles on bare ice slid less, there was a sticking effect.

indeed you're correct! last month i walked barefoot no more than 2-3 times per week, for around 20-40 minutes each. and even in summer i didn't go barefoot outdoors every day because, well, all this is just a small unexpected hobby for me, not a life philosophy.

thank you! anyway it's a failure in terms this time i've lost a pretty decent footage while the parts i'd call rather ordinary have managed to survive. otherwise... well, yeah, the camera works and helps to have both hands free, just like i wished. and... yes, i've started my winter barefoot walks back in 2021, so you're right, it will be the fourth winter for me. gosh, how time flies!

well, that sounds pretty cool, yet for me it doesn't feel really possible when living in a climate where temps can steadily go far below zero for several months in a row - unless you only travel by car all winter long and never go out for a walk, excluding quick runs from home to car and back.

@@fetterlesswanderer That's right, the temperatures in Germany are different than in Russia. The coldest temperature we've ever had was minus 20°C, and I was able to stand there barefoot for about an hour without having any problems.

yeah, this autumn turned out to be too wet for this, even though all the snow has really completely gone the next day after i captured this video, just as i guessed. thanks for your response!

хоть это и вправду было бы занятно, но я всё ещё не особо хочу привлекать к себе настолько много внимания.

thanks for your input, i'll consider using some kind of TTS for a voiceover in the future. meanwhile you may try youtube subtitle reader browser extension available for chrome and firefox which basically does exactly that with the available subtitles.

uh, i agree those floors don't feel like a real snow, i meant in summer they just felt so unexpectedly cold that it reminded me of snow in temperature. as for the bread, it actually wasn't a special kind, just an unbranded version of a wheat bread made on the very same factory as one of the branded varieties but costing a third less than that. some western brands have managed to change their names here (some of them did it very slightly though), while others haven't bothered at all it seems.

uh, i guess both have advantages. in summer i can walk for hours while in winter it's always limited to minutes for me. also in summer it's much easier as nobody around thinks you're crazy when seeing you. :) but if talking about how it feels, walking barefoot on snow is much more exciting i'm sure.

@@fetterlesswanderer I don't care what people think about me... what matters to me is being barefoot always and everywhere... I have been living, working, and traveling barefoot for 13 years now... the last 2 years I spent in Siberia... in May, I bought a motorcycle in Russia and now I'm touring Europe on my bike... in September, I will go to see the volcanoes in Hawaii, and in December, I will return to Siberia. 👣❄🌋🏍

do you mean, when i started doing it regularly? i think i was in my early thirties. but my first "close acquaintance" with snow, if i recall it correctly, was when i was still in the high school. nothing really special, just a couple minutes barefoot on a forest footpath. but i didn't repeat it for many years after that.

@@fetterlesswanderer Oh cool. I've been going barefoot into snow since a very young age. Thought it would be much tougher to adapt to the cold as a grown up!

yeah, it was surprisingly easy. but sometimes i think i still haven't really managed to adapt well, as in fact all my longer walks are only possible in late winter, when it becomes a little warmer, at above-zero temperatures.

@@fetterlesswanderer I get frosbite like instantly below -10C

oh, i see. i can withstand below -10C with no consequences for me only when walking on a _very_ flattened snow, that had been trampled thoroughly. so... technically it would be about walking barefoot not on snow but almost on ice. for instance, i had a video about that here: th-cam.com/video/IUtHq9fjAEM/w-d-xo.html

hi! thank you! i already saw some of your old videos earlier, but yet i believe that for me accidentally hitting a few nettles is already enough - i'm doing just fine without walking through them intentionally. :) and, yeah, i heard someone's used the.. um.. nettle therapy for the joint treatment, don't know if it was able to actually help them or not.

glad you liked it! the sudden appearance of a new gravel road was very surprising, and as for ticks, i already experienced their bites a couple times in my life and know how they look, yeah... had to take them into the lab that time to check they were healthy and carried no infections... in short, all this fuss about ticks is always too troublesome and makes me worry probably more than i should.

well yeah, i remember you suggested an easy way to get frostbite in winter and now it's the same thing for burns in summer. :) i agree humans were walking barefoot in deserts, but they gradually hardened their skin and got used to it from childhood, not in just one day. so i believe the gradual way will be better for me too.

@@fetterlesswanderer Yes, I agree gradual, but an hour a day or thereabouts is exactly that.

oh, that's the classic axis of evil, Russia :)

@@fetterlesswandererNothing wrong with that!

thank you for your kind words! / preparing water for plants beforehand is probably more of an tradition... pouring water into a bottle and leaving it there for some hours mainly helped to get rid of chlorine, but i'm not sure if its levels in water nowadays are still relevant for this. / to me, reasonably warm pavement is very nice, as long as it doesn't turn into a scorching hot pavement :) and that change happens with asphalt way too often on sunny july days... / as for forest Memorial, okay, i'll try to get there before autumn comes. in fact i myself haven't been there once since winter! / and, actually, same goes for biking... i still haven't got my bike out of the garage this summer. obviously i'm much much more of a pedestrian than a cyclist

well i'm not quite sure of that.

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that's cool! which is your favorite surface for winter barefoot walks? icy slush, frozen asphalt or some deep snow maybe?

@@fetterlesswanderer honestly I love all surfaces in snow or in the streets. Barefoot feeling is so exciting. I also try to walk barefoot in public more and more

It's beautiful and also incredible how nature changes so quickly...

thank you very much! i look forward to see your siberian adventures. i feel my hikes i publish here would be just child's play compared to yours! :)

actually, the other day i also tried to climb up that big slope straight as well, but it wasn't very interesting nor spectacular, to me at least. it's just an inclined empty space after all! so i believe that going by a steep path near the trees instead should look a little more exciting for the video. and i can't remember if i ever put any special emphasis on clinging with my toes, but sometimes it more or less works out by itself i guess.

@@fetterlesswanderersure the hike in the wood was more interesting. I just thought about the challenge climbing it...but maybe the other way was even more challenging. @toes ..I only thought somethimes they can help not to slip...but it doesn`t help in every situation. Looking forward to Your new walks!

i feel all my "cold resistance" somehow works well only when temperatures rise even a little but above zero, like it was this time. during the previous months, in winter, i was totally unable to walk barefoot for such long distances, but march appears to be very different. as for authorities, we don't have very strict laws on this as long as you stay away from residential areas and, um, keep your underwear with you.

да, была. мне всё ж нравится больше именно по снегу ходить, а ходить по зимней городской грязи - это уже немного другая категория развлечений.)

о, вот только сейчас увидел отредактированную версию вашего комментария. а я-то тогда думал, чего вы там куда составили. :)

well, this time the only really slippery place on my way turned out to be the small hill near the bridge in the forest, and almost nowhere else. in the upcoming video however there will be much more of this probably due to slightly higher ambient temps that day. but yeah, everything still went fine nevertheless.

@@fetterlesswanderer I'm looking forward to the next video

i hope to finish editing sometime next week.

uh, you should be living somewhere in alaska then? we had such temps this winter only for a week or two, in january mostly. not very barefootish weather!

I have been living and working barefoot since 2011... but since December 2022 I moved to Siberia between Tomtor and Ust-nera.... I am here to challenge myself and my feet...👣❄👣

oh, that must be a really insane experience! so you're near the very Oymyakon then, known for being one of the coldest places on the planet. i thought only yakuts can live and survive there, and they definitely don't do it barefoot.

I am here to challenge myself and to show everyone that the body can adapt to anything....of course, everyone has their own limits...but I do not have any...my feet have become paws, the heels have become hooves, I have cracks everywhere even in the toes of my feet, I have lost much of the sensitivity under the paws and the soles of my feet are blackened from the cold that I face day after day always full of dangers and pitfalls that I am proud to fight barefoot. 💪👣 In a few weeks, I will return to my home country so I can upload some videos of my adventures in Siberia on TH-cam.

@@mikebarefooter2036 Looking forward with great interest to learn all about your remarkable powers to adapt to the brutal conditions. You should be very proud of your super human dedication. You have great knowledge that should be shared.

Thank you! I noticed that now I'm able to walk on snow somewhat longer than before, especially when it's relatively warm, but when it comes to possible interaction with others... deep inside I still wish to avoid it at all costs, almost like it was on the first day. I'm just trying not to show it. Anyway I'll continue to practice hoping one day this could change.

Как ни странно, но лично мне зима нравится больше. Да, пусть подходящая для босых прогулок погода выпадает и не каждый день, но когда снег чистый и температура подходящая - это ж прям прекрасно. Ну, именно по городу толком и не погулять, это да, но так я к тому и не стремлюсь.

Спасибо. Штука в том, что я сейчас регулярно босиком хожу всё по тем же самым местам, которые на мои видео уже попадали (а некоторые - и не раз). Снимать снова прогулки по тем же локациям мне кажется скучно, а ехать куда-то принципиально дальше сейчас нет ни толком времени, ни сил.

@@fetterlesswanderer а я думаю будет очень интересно выглядеть босая поездка в транспорте/метро в начале ранней весны, когда многие ещё в куртках и зимних ботинках, а вы босиком)😄

Так-то да, мне тоже было б интересно на такое посмотреть. Но вот участвовать в этом - это уже чересчур. :) Я человек непубличный и внимания к себе привлекать не люблю. Прогуляться за городом по чистому снегу - прекрасно, но соваться посреди зимы босиком в общественный транспорт - для меня слишком уж дико.))

I am a man.

hi. actually i don't think i'm doing something special - in the end, just anyone can do the same. after a little training, probably, still it isn't hard anyway. though, well, excessive shyness would always be an issue when you're in public. but which kind of advice you suppose i could give?

Hey thanx for answering. More about how to start basically.

are you interested in winter barefooting specifically? well, first you need to choose a proper place for that. walking barefoot on well-trodden paths is multiple times easier (and much less cold) than trying loose, unpacked snow. and yet snow should be clean enough there. stomp your feet if snow still gets stuck in between your toes, it helps a lot to quickly get rid of it - it's always very cold when it melts on your skin. and... well, just walk. really. start with only 3-5 minutes, and walk all the time, don't stand still. the closer ambient temperature to 0°C, the easier it will be. if you feel you're freezing, it's a good sign to end anyway. just listen to what you feel. and in time you'll be able to walk for a longer distances. yet, all this depends very much on weather conditions, in a strong wind and severe cold even on my third year of snowfooting i'm not able to last longer than same ~5 minutes without freezing my toes.

I like barefooting anytime anywhere but in winter in the snow it looks like a big challenge and I like it. What’s the longest you could make it?

well, i guess the walk where i made the full circle around the roller track is still my longest one to date, it took me almost 3/4 hour to complete ( and i was recording it: th-cam.com/video/5b-zYpotkI8/w-d-xo.html ). however... actually it might be considered a bit of cheating. yes, technically there still was snow everywhere, but it was almost spring, sun was shining, air felt almost warm, and, what's most important, since it was around zero temperature snow didn't stick to my feet at all (and was almost melting instead). all that made relatively easy to continue for such a long time. so i'm sure i won't be able to repeat the same in, for example, december.

basically this video was age restricted by youtube from the beginning for no apparent reason (yeah, walking barefoot in nature definitely should be 18+!), but several months later restrictions were suddenly removed (and i did nothing for that). and then, after another half a year, they no less suddenly were put back in place, so as of now it's age restricted again. what's going on, youtube? you have nothing else to do or what?

thanks for your reply! for now it's been almost a week of strict sub-zero temperatures, so most small lakes and ponds around has frozen pretty reliably i guess. but this one is a bit special since on its northern side there are few underground sources which makes it never freeze even during the coldest winters. its other sides however should be no different from other water basins... still i prefer to look at our local fishers before stepping there.

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i can't remember if i ever mentioned that on this channel, but as a humble alien being from proxima centauri i can tell that we don't have such a concept as gender. you could take a look at my videos list for a hint though.

basically this is blizhneye zamkadye.