SE Idaho - Indian Hot Springs, City of Rocks, and Craters of the Moon (July 2019)

Double Dose of Indian Hot Springs
July 1, 2019.

The day started out just like any other. Well, any other where the previous included a 12-hour drive from home to the starting point of our next adventure.

So it was that, as we lay in bed, I looked over and said, "I've got an idea."

Hey! Get. Your. Head. Out. Of. The. Gutter.

See, we'd planned to spend the day heading to Indian Hot Springs via the east entrance - a dirt track that we'd been meaning to take since we'd first come to Idaho 18 months ago to pick up the CBI Outback Bumper. Having run our of time, we'd headed straight down to The Maze, Canyonlands, and we'd never made it back. Then, at dinner the night before, Ben reminded me that he and Kirsten had tried to reach the springs via the west entrance - stymied by a rock slide on the final descent down into the valley.

So I proposed to @mrs.turbodb that we try the west route first. And then, if we couldn't make it down, we'd drive around to the east. But if we could - and if we could ford the Bruneau River (since the bridge over the river had reportedly been out for a few years) - then we could do both sides on our way east towards City of Rocks, our next destination.

Read the full story and see all the photos: Double Dose of Indian Hot Springs

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Really beautiful pictures. Those glyphs mustve been fun to discover. I just got back from Eastern Idaho myself and was in awe of how many amazing hotsprings there are.

 

so it's kinda unsat to read only part of a trip report. I mean, you're my adventure crack dealer. If Tacomaworld was a group of Taco Truck owners, Your pics and stories are the "good Taco Truck" you mentioned. I think it's time you re-focus and commit MORE to the viewers and less to "family and friends and job"



Thanks for letting me become an adventure-voyeur as you live a life seemingly chock-full of what many of us consider 'the ideal'.

 

Thanks! Idaho is definitely a land of hot springs for sure. Always fun to find one, even if we only end up in a fraction of them.

Hahahaha, glad you're enjoying. I'll get another fix up for ya later today-ish.

 

Where I live today has only 2 hours left...tick tock bro....tick tock...

 

Day 2...

As we pulled up to our spot - campsite #4 - at Twin Sisters, a surprise! Tents were already setup in "our spot." And what's this? - someone else's name on the reserved sign. Uh oh. I checked the reservation. Yep - I had a confirmation email, my credit card had been charged. And then, I noticed - we'd reserved spot #64 - as far away from Twin Sisters as you could physically get, a site that I'd looked at but - I thought - only in passing. There'd clearly been a snafu somewhere along the way - either in the web site, or between the keyboard and monitor.

How'd we get here and what did we see? Check it all out in Day 2: We Take Up Residence in Idaho's City of Rocks

Day 2: We Take Up Residence in Idaho's City of Rocks



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Day 3

We explored leisurely before heading back to the truck and continuing on our way through the maze of roads that wound up, around, and through the forest - in and out of trees, across wildflower filled meadows, and to several spectacular viewpoints. Even destinationless and meandering, it turned out to be my favorite part of the trip so far.

Check out what we saw and read how our day developed: From City of Rocks to Craters of the Moon

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I’m so freaking jealous of everything you guys do. I need to find a way to fit my life around this kind of adventure