Hot Spring Break – Road Trippin’ Idaho Style
Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
Contributor, fellow soak-seeker, writer and backcountry traveler Daniel Claar has graciously contributed “Hot Spring Break – Road Trippin’ Idaho Style” to IdahoHotSprings.com. Daniel was recently the winner of Idaho Magazine’s Publisher’s Choice Award for 2010.
While friends and family set sail for some sunny beach on their annual spring break, my wife and I drive towards one of the coldest inhabited places in the continental United States. The frigid mountain town of Stanley, Idaho has a population of roughly 50 hardy souls and brutal six month winters are the main reason. Even in these last days of March, Jamie and I expect nightly temperatures to plummet below zero, and we’ll be lucky if daytime highs break the freezing mark. We will also be car camping, an endeavor begging questions from our peers. Are we crazy? Are we not sick of winter’s gray cloak? Are we not dying to step into shorts and feel warm again? The answer is yes, yes, and most certainly, yes. In fact, we have swimsuits packed, and, in the American spring break tradition, predict we’ll see public nudity along the way.
Read the rest of the article on IdahoHotSprings.com
Related: “Naked, Wet, and Wild in Idaho” by Daniel Claar
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