Does anybody go barefoot in the snow

I love going barefoot in the snow

 

Here’s a picture of my bare feet in the snow

 

I have tried and my feet can’t tolerate the cold. I am now trying to condition my feet to cold by walking I the grass in lower temps. Spent over an hour barefoot with temps in the low 50’s F. A week ago I spent 10 minutes walking in wet grass that was in the mid 30’s F.

 

Here where I live it been in the 20’s degrees in the morning and the daytime high is in the 30’s and I have been to the gas station and to Walmart today I got a lot of weird looks because it’s been snowing and I was wearing a coat with sweatpants and in my bare feet

 

The short answer is yes....?

How long I last is kind of variable though. Deep snow...where it covers the top of my foot like in your picture? Not long...a couple of minutes. Where just the pads of my feet touch the snow...considerably longer. Also...temperature. Exposure time is a lot shorter at 15 or 20F than if it's at or above freezing. Overall, it's never too cold for me to go from the car to the house, or some other indoor location.

 

When the snow is over my bare feet I can last up to two hours but if it like a dusting of snow I can last a lot long but I do remove snow in my bare feet but I have been going barefoot for a every long time in all type of weather . But it great that others still go barefoot in the winter or snow

 

I've been known to do a little shoveling in bare feet. I find lack of traction to be as much or more of an issue than the cold!

Temps in the 50s or below often get a double take. Anytime there's snow or slush comments are inevitable!

There's no shortage of people for whom 50° is unbearably cold. Amateurs...

 

That's quite a tolerance for cold!

I've been known to do a little shoveling in bare feet. I find lack of traction to be as much or more of an issue than the cold....

Temps in the 50s or below often get a double take. Anytime there's snow or slush comments are inevitable!

There's no shortage of people for whom 50° is unbearably cold. Amateurs...

 

You can definitely do it (and I know I do). You just can't do it indefinitely. Ambient temperature and the type of snow you're dealing with matters. I did -20 Celsius (-4 Fah) earlier last Monday, but I only did it in short bursts of about 3 minutes at a time, before going back inside the house to warm my feet back up. About 2-3 weeks ago, however, the weather was milder. Only about -2, maybe -3 Celsius (roughly 28 Fah). It was late at night, with nobody there to see me, so I walked about a mile on an icy road near my home. Took my Crocs off and just barefooted back home, carrying the shoes. I cleared this distance in about 5-7 minutes, and didn't really feel any discomfort, because at this point my feet are pretty well trained for this, but I would've put the Crocs back on if I had started to feel any pain. But that time I made it back home barefoot.

I was ultimately able to accomplish this because there was no snow on the road, just solid ice, so only my by now well accustomed pads were affected, I kept a steady pace and the temps were in my favor. Flour like powder snow that your feet can sink into is a very different beast, however. Especially if it snowed down from a high-pressure cold weather front, that shit just produces the nastiest, most bitter snow. The problem with this is that it melts on your skin immediately upon contact, the resulting melt water is super cold, and it then begins to freeze around your feet again. This is actually quite dangerous, and if you don't protect your feet quickly, you could end up with chilblains, or even frostbites. Actually almost happened to me once, during my early days of snowfooting, when I was still testing and finding my limits.

So always remember that if you snowfoot, the clock is ticking and it will always tick against you. If you go far from home, bring emergency shoes with you. There's no shame in that.

(But yeah, I snowfoot.)

 

I make it a point to go out on my deck every morning to feed my dog and cats barefoot regardless of the weather or temperature. Now, that I have totally discovered the joy of being barefoot I am barefoot as much as possible. I take walks everyday and most days I am able to barefoot walk in the park on the grass and mulch trails. But, cold temperatures are on the way, so some days it is on 50,40 or even in the 30’s. Takes time to build endurance. Yesterday it was in the mid 40’s and I spent an hour walking on the grass barefoot. A couple of weeks ago it was in 36 and the grass was damp, I could only endure for ten minutes.
There is a YouTuber by the name of Barefoot Ice Princess and she walks in snow, cold water and many other challenging places.
My hope is to be able to endure barefoot snow walking for 30 minutes. Haven’t even gotten close in past years, although I did do a naked snow angel once, then I warmed up in my hot tub.

 

Great picture of your bare feet

 

Just finished a 45 minute barefoot walk in the park. The temperature was in the low 40s like 41 but it felt like 37. At first it did not feel too cold but as time goes on the cold does take affect on my feet. I enjoy the cold barefoot experience, but I am careful not to exceed my limits so as to not injure my feet.