The Woods Around Me

I had discovered skinny dipping, celebrated my 11th birthday, and I started to venture into the woods around the lake I lived on with my family. If I followed the stream that flowed into the lake, I could hike about three miles w/o seeing any civilization. Up the hill to the easy of the stream were homes on the outer loop of the lake several hundred yards away, and to the west of the stream, were homes about a mile and a half away. In my exploration, I saw no signs of other humans: no soda cans or bottles, no trash of any kind, other than some occasional trash in the stream that could have come from far away, nor any other sign I could see. So late that summer, as soon as I was out of view of the lake, since I was only wearing either shorts or my bathing suit, no shirt, and my sneakers, I would remove my shorts/suit and hike naked for the remainder of the day. It was probably my 15th venture into the woods that I found a natural clearing that had a wild apple tree growing in it, and this is where I discovered lying naked, my shoes removed, and receiving my first all over tan. about my 20th time into the woods, I got really bold: I left my shorts/swim suit where I took them off so I could hike with no restrictions, and no safety net if discovered.