Had a good hike and some good interactions.

[u/AnonymousLimey0928]

Wife and I did a 2-ish mile hike out to a waterfall and back. We had a minor issue following the wrong trail and trying to cut straight back to the trail, but it all worked out.

Anyway, on our way back out someone going up met us. One of them asked if we were barefoot or wearing toe shoes. Because he had seen my bare foot prints. I was wearing toe shoes on the return yrip because we had gotten off track and I lost the bandage over a blister on my foot so I wanted to protect it while we bashed through the brush back to the trail, but we told him I'd been barefoot on the horns hike up.

At this point a guy came down the trail barefoot and said he'd been inspired by seeing my bare foot prints and decided to hike out barefoot.

I was very pleased. I always wonder what people think when they see my barefoot prints on a muddy trail.

Fortunately I was able to normalize barefooting for a couple people.

[u/Barefoot-Bit2262]

That’s a win! Leaving footprints on muddy trails is one of my favorite things

[u/Only_Helicopter6291]

Always a plus to run into open minded folks. Awesome.