Co-ed Naked Hiking — Switzerland's new national sport?


	Co-ed Naked Hiking — Switzerland's new national sport?

ofcapri

6-26-2009 5:58 PM

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In September, the police in this mountainous town detained a young hiker, whose friends will identify him only as Peter, wandering with nothing on but hiking boots and a knapsack. But they had to release him, because in Switzerland there is no law against hiking in the nude.

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6-26-2009 7:45 PM

tweezer

Cold things get smaller in the cold I'd want to be in front going up hill.

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