I’ve started a new habit at the hot springs, pH testing! Here’s Molly’s Hot Spring And, Holdover Hot Springs Vulcan’s Pool Cave-In The Rundown The sole pool at Molly’s has been reconstructed, complete with valves for hot and hotter (no cold!!!). The pool at Vulcan is indeed gone, but great potential remains. And, Holdover is …read more.

View video w/o music This video is from a recent trip to the Boise National Forest, northeast of Cascade, Idaho.

Filmed shortly after the famed pools went up in 2007 (which were dismantled recently), behold the glory of Rocky Canyon Hot Springs. View Rocky Canyon Hot Springs on IHS View Flickr Pictures View all Rocky Canyon Blog Posts

Sadly, the log-dammed pool at mighty Vulcan is no-more due to a wildfire that rampaged the area. In fact, the entire surrounding area has been closed for the last 3 seasons due to wildfire restoration efforts. Basically, the wildfire super-heated the earth around Vulcan… flattening the area where the old log-dammed pool used to snugly …read more.

After reading the hotspringsguy’s post on Skinnydipper it is hard to not want to go clean it up! Boise River Volunteers will be having a clean up on Tuesday 4/6/10– we will meet at 10am and clean then soak- plan for this to be an all day event. Tons of trash along with tons of …read more.

The snow was hard enough to walk on, making an icy sidewalk that reached all the way to the geothermal complex. I am sad to report that the king soaking pool is somewhat dismembered. There’s hope, but serious work will be needed to patch up the rock walls. The soak shack was in good repair, …read more.