Again, the word “resort” in the title here is doing a lot of heavy lifting. This place we ended up in is about one part nice cabins in the woods, and one part Middlegate, NV. A very nice caretaker named Leon lives here and he and his buddy keep the place tip top. Everything is fed by geothermals; they even use it for the electricity.
But enough about that; yesterday was a great day. We woke up and had about 20 miles of riding and about 8 different hot springs in front of us. Spoiler alert; we ended up going to 3, not counting the one we started at and the one here that we ended up at. All three had good and bad sides. The best one was a spring called Loftus; that was the last one we went to and the guide book described it as “beautiful” so I said we had to try it. It was somewhat man-sculpted, but it was a beautiful shangri-la pool with a natural shower. If I lived in Boise I’d be there all the time; we’re only about 40-45 miles away. We keep meeting more and more cool people; another whole younger family stopped by last night and we chatted with them for over an hour; they were from Wisconsin but had lived all over this area.
The second hot springs was Browns Creek, which was basically just an amazing natural shower. We had to ford the river to get there, which was mildly terrifying, but it was worth it. What a great shower.
The third hot springs was Dutch Frank, which was “nothing special”, but of course that still means it was spectacular. We went to that one first (chronologically) so we were still starry eyed.
Anyway, the “hot springs” trip finally came through! With hot springs!
We couldn’t stay at a cabin last night; they are perpetually full. We did stop by and look at their onsite two bedroom house, which I called the Scooby Doo house because it looked kind of terrifying. So we just cowboy camped on a lawn out under the stars. I slept well.
I’m really enjoying the trip and love hanging out with Kip. I will also admit that I’m ready to go home.
