This guy intrigues me, I happened to watch this program(though not this episode) on one of my rare visits to TV land. It so happened I had been thinking of bare footing just previously and had started re-telling people about this one guy I used to nearly always see in bars on the weekend(back when i did that sorta thing) who was always barefoot; summer on asphalt; in winter on ice; in fact his name as far as I knew was Bare Foot.

It feels nice to walk in friendly areas bare foot; but I do not have the toughness I did when younger when most every kid I knew could run on gravel without shoes- though we didn't do the winter thing.

Funny too while only thinking of bare footing I actually bought two pairs of vintage gokey 1 snake shoes, and one pair of knee high snake proof boots. even funnier because i am not afraid of snakes and walk around in their camps rather often long before i had these 40+ yr old boots.... oh yeah. Dual Survival: Socks On A Glacier : Video : Discovery Channel

so how do you feel about the freedom of going bare foot