Let's just hop right into this one today or hike into it pun intended.
This is Warm Springs trail and I've been excited to do this one for a while now.
Okay I'm gonna have to stop for a second. To get here it's really easy,
from that mile marker 91 where we were last week, yesterday for me, last week for
you, it is literally just right over the bridge. You'll see a sign that says Warm
Springs trail and Warm Springs airstrip and you just follow that sign. It's
really well marked you can't miss it. So you go past a ranger station of some
kind and then you come around this airstrip and there is the trailhead.
I hear there's some great camping and backpacking. This makes for a great
short backpacking trip. I do hear there are a lot of animals on this hike and
you have a chance for a pretty close encounter with all sorts of things from
goats, sheep, deer, and black bear. So just be prepared for that. Alright enough chit
chatting, let's hit the trail.
I know this Creek is only 0.3 miles into this hike and my father would be
disappointed to hear me say this but I'm kind of tired already. This so far has
definitely been the hardest trail out of the three in this area that I've tackled
this week and it looks like we're continuing up. Don't bring really heavy
camera gear I guess is the lesson learned here if you want to backpack this trail.
Okay so now we're a half mile into the hike and I've come to a fork in
the road. To my left is a path heading straight up. That path takes you to
Eightmile mountain at 7800 feet. We do not want to go that way. At least I don't
maybe you do. And to the right is our path, it's the more level path and this
will continue to take us to our destination.
Well we made it to the destination I was looking for. So this is my campsite, it
was easy to find cuz it looks like people have been here. They've made a
table and some stools and a fire pit. This is 2.3 miles from the trailhead
honestly I really didn't know what I was looking for but I saw the fire pit and I
knew that once we leveled out next to the creek somewhat that was the place I
wanted to stop. You can continue along that trail for another 7.7 miles
to Bull Trout Lake. I am not going to do that, I'm gonna set up camp and I'm
gonna take a look around. Did I maybe definitely find a hot springs in camp.
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Big thanks to our sponsors now let's go check out the camp. All right
camp is set up. I've got a warm cup of coffee and my Banana Ink sweatshirt on
because it's pretty chilly even here in May. So obviously someone's done some
work up here. The fire pit is nice, there's a table right over here, there's
another clearing. It looks like there's enough space for a couple of groups. so I
read that there was a little hot springs by the creek. So I found this little
footpath and I came through here and I see this.
That's the hot water there so I follow it down this nice little rocky beach here.
I follow it down and I find this pool.
I don't know maybe I'm not at the right time of year or something like that but
then I go and get my water purifier and I come down to fill the bag to make
some water and once again I notice some rocks that have been built up on the
edge of this little sandbar here and sure enough this is the hot springs
I did get in, it's not a chill and stay for a long time hot springs. The
one side of it, water is coming out ungodly hot, like scalding burn your feet
and on this other side you have the fresh spring water, fresh snow runoff
that's freezing cold and they somehow meet in the middle here and you can
never just get the right temperature. You're either too hot or too cold. I bet in
the summer the river side is awesome. But still, such a cool feature and such a big
part of Idaho. Two out of the three hikes I found some sort of rustic hot spring
next to a campground and that's just what you get here in Idaho you just find
stuff like that.
Obviously there were some folks that put some tender loving
care into all of this and if you come and experience this I take it that
you're an outdoor lover so you probably don't need to be told this but just
remember to leave a place better than you found it or at least leave a place
like you didn't find it. Now that you know and you've seen this place if
you've watched this video maybe plan to add a little something if you can. Now
that I have this place in mind I have ideas for the next time I come but I
think this camp is a good reminder that people don't always destroy nature that
sometimes we do make it a little bit better.
Next week we are leaving the Lowman area and heading closer to Boise. To the town
of Idaho City, backpacking and camping so make sure you subscribe to the channel
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