so im in australia go barefoot every were except for work, its starting to get into summer now and the cement and roads are heating up, to day it 42 dregrees out side not sure how hot the ground is, tho every now and the ill burn my feet and geat a few blisters, its kind cool knowing wich sufraces are going to be hotter i find painted lines get hotter than the tar in car parks, so yeha just a wonder do you guys experance burnt souls, peace
It can get impossible to walk on barefoot here without burning your feet badly. Oh, the painful memories.
during summer the asphalt can get scorching to the limit. asphalt is still better than sand, though: i use to go out barefoot , take the cycle and get to the beach and when i get out of the pinewood and into the beach in the hottest month i have to run . black tar asphalt can be so scorching to give you shivers of pain in some points where air circulates poorly but sand is killer. it covers your feet and cooks them like an oven. it is totally unbearable for more than 10''. one day i've got to to carry my high temperature thermometer from the still and measure the temperature, just to know. I'd swear that it must be way over 55 °. Here in the middle of summer heat can well put you KO, months ago my (motor)bike left my on (bare) feet and i almost got a sunstroke dragging it to the shop for a couple of miles. Asphalt was white there though I've never experienced heat blisters, maybe because of my thick soles (i even managed to get a tackle all the way into my big toe and no bleeding at all) . I only get blisters when i put shoes on.
yeah iv only been bear footing for rough 6 months full on now, tho i find it truly enjoyable, im letting them get used to the heat tho in a few cases i have to walk a bit quicker or if im waiting for trafic i act like a lizzard in the desert and balance on a few toes and my heal, bush walking bear foot rocks as well, rock out my friends
In the northeast US it rarely goes above 39 C - but at high noon, early in the summer season before my feet are maximally tough, I have gotten blisters from dark asphalt only. So, I walk on the unpaved shoulder. Haven't been to Australia yet but everyone I know who has visited - LOVE IT! Rock on!
I remember one day in all the years I've been barefoot that temps got up over 100F and I sorta started to think maybe it would get too hot in some places....oh, and one time on a ship's metal deck plates. All other years the pavement didn't get close to getting too hot to walk (too bad, I love hot weather and having to pay a bit of attention to shady spots and white lines would be a good price to pay for better summers!)
In the parking lot during Grateful Dead summer tour. the bottoms of my feet would burn on the black pavement.
Sweet_dream made a post about this back in 2007. There are few natural surfaces that get too hot for me to handle. I’ve hiked in Bandelier National Park in New Mexico and Craters Of The Moon National Monument in Idaho in the US in August as well as trekked over black volcanic cinder cones on the island of Java barefoot and never had a problem. Although I didn’t have anything with which to measure the ground temperature in these places, I can say that the air temperature was between 30-37C on a sunny day. Man-made surfaces, on the other hand, can quickly become untenable. Steel plates in the full sun can get too hot for even the toughest barefooter to stand. Black asphalt parking lots, as others have mentioned, are doable as long as there’s some shade to pause in every dozen meters or so.
The parking lots could burn your soles if you weren't used to barefootin'. The Dead shows were the BEST places for meeting other true, hardcore barefooters. I remember one girl who asked me if I had a safety pin. Her soles had huge blisters on them from the lot. I didn't have one and felt bad for her. One of the worst mistakes is for someone to overdue it and stay barefoot on hot pavement too long. They get blisters and burns and discouraged from barefooting. Taking it in moderation really helps and after a while your soles get accustomed to the hot pavement.
Even in the dead heat of the summer, hot pavement does not bother me too much. Cold weather, however can be uncomfortable. Coldness tends to magnify every single pebble 100X. Even the grainy dirt on the sidewalk is irritating in the colder weather.
The UK is never too hot for bare feet, though it can get too cold. I'm still bf for now, but it's starting to get a bit chilly...
thats a good thought, i killed my feet to day, now there all burning and tingley they love it tho, enjoy ur bear footing peace,
Asphalt: about 133 degrees F if I end up with smaller blisters the size of the eraser side of a pencil to as large as the size of a US quarter coin after a couple of minutes without shade or sidewalk, especially if I had to do some standing and I also didn't walk more quickly. The smaller ones actually don't fill up enough to need to be drained. Preheating the soles also makes a big difference! If I gradually warm up the soles to the hottest asphalt, it burns slower allowing for more steps on that asphalt before I need some shade or sidewalk. If I just go out without any sole preheating, it already burns too much after just 20 or so steps and I desperately need shade or sidewalk until my soles are preheated enough. About 125 degrees F if it's a slowly increasing but then a constant burn that doesn't increase anymore as I walk on unshaded asphalt for several consecutive minutes. The most I've done so far is 10 minutes before I finally needed to walk though shade.
