See the "V" between the mountains that's where the hot springs are!
Here's a description of the hike from a website about the hotsprings
General Description
A chain of waterfall-fed pools await at the end of a grueling 3 mile hike on a shade deprived trail. During hot temps this hike is rough - bring plenty of water or a water filter. There is a bio-toilet about 1.5 to 2 miles in, near one of the shaded primitive sites. The last .5 miles in to the springs are the steepest of the entire route. While most of the path is through a desert landscape filled with sagebrush there are brief cool areas of relief near the creek among the junipers. Goldbug is well-known, and is used by many different types of soakers.
The fairly difficult hike does little to deter the crowds. However, this hot springs is well cared for. The norm here is to pick up your trash and leave as little trace as possible. I'm always happy when I encounter a hot springs where the majority are stewards. Expect a mostly non-swimsuit wearing crowd (signed as clothing optional area) that are polite and friendly. Watch for snakes during the warmer months, this area has many rattlesnakes and other kinds of snakes(We saw a few snakes but the boys killed them and they weren't rattlers!) - the elevation and temperatures are just right.
The description does a good job of describing it to you! The hike was grueling! And I had two kids i was packing! Landon was in the back in a hiking backpack carrier and Zeke was in front in another carrier! Luckily we camped part of the way up cuz it was getting dark and the guys (Lee and his cousins Jon and Jordan) hiked in the dark and took most all of our stuff up that night while Hillarie (Jordan's wife) and I slept in the tent with the kids. The next day we headed out with the rest of our stuff and boy was it HOT!!! and there really is NO shade along the way except the occasional treed area! We were dying! Lee had Landon on his back this time and I just had Zeke but I was still dying! the part that was the worst was the last .5mile for sure!!! it was steep and really rocky and our thighs and shoulders were burning! ( our shoulders from the weight we were carrying) Lee made it up and came back for me and carried Zeke the rest of the way! I was soooo grateful! even without a kid it was killer! I was dreading going back down after the weekend! But going down was way easier and faster! It was hot the day we left but i had both kids and made it almost all the way to the bottom when Lee's cousin Jon came back to help us and he took landon for me! All in all it was tons of fun but we won't be doing it again with as much stuff thats for sure! But we will be doing it again cuz it was awesome!!! Unfortunately my camera SUCKS and it died after only a few pictures so this is pretty much all I have...I'll have to get more from my sister in law! but here's what I got!
The descriptions is right about the naked hippies going up to soak in these hotsprings! we saw our fair share of them over the weekend! This picture is of lee mimicking the pose of one of the naked guys that hiked up there everyday! soooo gross!!!! haha he was really weird he'd even crouch on the rocks like a monkey and just sit there in the buff! I had to keep landon's attention diverted else where otherwise he'd just stand there staring at the guy! embarassing!!! where a swim suit people!
ahahaha funny modeling poses lol
Modeling poses lol totally just messing around and having fun lol
Lee sittin' at the edge of the waterfall
Robert (Lee's brother) and Kandice
See the person in the blue shirt up top? that's where we made camp and boy was it rocky!!! sleeping was definitely interesting!
this pool below the hotsprings was so cool! it was the perfect temperature of both the ice cold fast stream and the warm hotsprings so during the day it was the best place to be cuz it was too hot during the day to want to be in the warm water!
Lee playin' around in the ICE cold water!
Hotsprings water fall! sooo nice! if you sat below it it'd massage you :)
Landon LOVED the water! he likes water anyways but the warm water was exactly how he likes it! He didn't ever wanna get out! haha Zeke slept the couple times he was in the water haha
Hotsprings at sunset! At night the hotsprings was the coolest thing ever under the open sky with all the stars out! Soooo cool! we forgot our glowsticks though! it would have been even cooler if we had gotten glow sticks to float around in the water for some cool lighting!
Happy camper Zeke! :)
This vacation looked like a lot of fun!
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