We had hiked for half the morning up into the mountains of Montana, to a dense area of the woods, miles away from any city or sign of people. My best friends Alex, Trevor, and Kyle had always brought up a "guys' camping trip" whenever we were a few beers in at our favorite bar. Finally, a couple weeks ago, we had ironed out all the details to have our much-needed boys' getaway this weekend. This morning, a refreshing Friday in June, we kissed our girlfriends goodbye and climbed the four hours into the overgrown trees, aiming for a spot against the mountain for our boys' camping trip.
Coming out of the foliage, we simultaneously realized that the clearing we had just walked into was the perfect spot. We stopped and dropped our bags in a heaping pile on the flattened pine needles. My shoulders and back ached with relief as I slipped my backpack off. When we had started the hike a few hours ago, all four of us had nearly immediately taken off our shirts, so we were currently all shirtless. Kyle and Trevor had tucked their t-shirts inside their bags. Mine I had tied onto the outside of my backpack, while Alex's hung in the waistband of his gym shorts. The few inches tucked into the waistband was darker in color, having absorbed his sweat while hanging there. I could tell that each of us definitely had raging BO from the climb. We were glistening in sweat.
Out of the four of us, Trevor had the most hair on his torso. It was so insane that it grew wildly around his shoulders and covered most of his upper back. It was black and striking against the lightness of his skin. Alex and I were tied for second regarding body hair. Unlike Trevor, our body hair focused mostly to the front. Neither of us had much back hair. Alex's grew a bit more on his stomach while mine concentrated more around my pecs and nipples. As the only auburn-haired guy in our group, my chest hair was deep red. Fiery and different than my friends' body hair. The last guy in our group however, Kyle, was the avid lifter, so he sported a smooth look to show off his muscles. His chest was hairless and toned. He had a tribal tattoo across his left pec. Every so often, when his girlfriend refused to help him shave his back after a fight, he'd call one of us to lend a hand. I had shaved his back a couple of times. Thank God it wasn't anything like Trevor's back. Otherwise, I would have refused.
I watched Alex lift his arm up, giving his three friends a full view of the dark brown bush in his armpit. He tilted his nose over and let us watch him huff the stench wafting out from his pit hair. "Shit! That is fucking pungent."
"My BO is vile," Trevor added. "I've been smelling it for an hour." He was known to sweat a lot with all that hair.
Kyle chimed in. "Who gives a fuck. It's a boys' getaway, right?" He slapped my shoulder beside him, giving me a smirk. "I don't think I even brought any deodorant," he said, turning back to the other two. "Toothbrush, pair of shorts. Pretty much it for my packing list."
Alex scoffed at him. "That's all you brought? I don't mind a little funk if it's my own shit, but I don't need to be smelling you nasty asses too."
Trevor pulled the map from his bag while Alex continued to scold the natural order of our male bodies. I watched Trevor focus in on the area we had hiked to. I heard Kyle teasing Alex back, "You're such a fucking prude bitch. Get off my dick."
"There should be a pond just down this hill," Trevor alerted us, cutting the argument short. "I'm going to rinse off." He pinned the map beneath his backpack and strutted to the downward slope to our left. We fell in behind him, Alex mumbling comebacks under his breath as the four shirtless, stinky men cautiously descended the hill to the pond below.
Lucky for hypochondriac Alex, the pond wasn't very gross looking, and was generally clear of aquatic foliage where "snapping turtles would be waiting", as he would say. In all honesty, it was an oasis beneath an open sky of blue and striated clouds above.
"This looks amazing." Kyle was the first to drop his shorts and underwear, stripping completely buck naked. The four of us had been friends for so long that being naked in front of each other wasn't even a second thought. I had seen all their cocks years ago, and they had seen mine. None of us thought twice about it. Alex, Trevor, and I all followed his lead, pushing off our shorts and wet underwear, leaving them on the leaves, diving one by one into the water.