From outside magazine, this is the outside podcast.

I was talking to my boyfriend Dan one morning and he was telling me about a time that he

had modeled nude for a story in his college newspaper and I was dying laughing and I just

thought like damn it you know like I don't have any stories like this on my own and I just

blurred it out wait what if what if I tried to become one of those naked people and he

kind of gives me this look and he's he just immediately like muttered under his breath

like oh my god because I think he knew I was serious.

This is Gloria Lou, freelance writer, former editor at outside magazine all around

outdoors person and until recently definitively not one of those naked people.

That was until she took on an assignment for the May Joon print edition of outside.

The resulting feature story about her quest to as she put it becomes someone who does naked

stuff outside offers an insightful and rather unexpected take on what going on natural

in the outdoors does for us.

You may well already have a sense of the allure here.

Maybe you have some experience with nighttime skinny dipping or maybe you've been a bit

bolder.

The truth is lots of people enjoy disrupting in the open air.

A fact Gloria was very aware of when she began her reporting.

So for example my boyfriend Dan has skied Tuckermund's ravine that's a famous backcountry

ski route in the northeast.

He's done it naked.

I have a good girlfriend who have done full moon naked mountain bike rides.

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