Hiking Club
All of my friends seem to “do things”--
bake cakes, write zines, bicycle in the nude, ski in costumes,
build metal boats, identify bugs, or grow vegetables.
And sometimes we do things together - Like geting dressed
up and going for hikes...
The Interlopers HC is a formalization of a loosely
knit hiking club that began as The Feral Spaniels in Los
Angeles in 1998 for the purpose of pancake hikes in the
LA Foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
In the early 2000s, our hikes migrated to the high desert
around A-Z West, and it was in the isolation of these
high hills that our hiking apparel transformed into a
combination of utility and fashion, dazzling the tortoises,
snakes and other desert creatures.
Combining costumes and sport was the perfect antidote
to a practice of desert walking... when in costume, we
looked as odd as joshua trees and blooming cactus, and
our iconoclastic attire brought us closer to the desert’s
alien environment.
