As usual, after breakfast and packing of lunches we shipped off around 10. Today we were going back to the Mammoth area to seek the "boiling river". There's a river, the Gardner River coming out of the mountains in Montana. It is numbingly cold. Then you have a hot spring discharging boiling river into the Gardner river. The particular spot on the river is located pretty much on the border of Wyoming and Montana. The trick is to find the magic 2' to 3' feet of beautifully hot-tub temperature water. Too close to the hot spring and you scald yourself. To close to the Gardner river and you turn blue. Additionally, the current of the Gardner river pushes you down stream. So its hard to maintain your magic spot.
On the left side of the boardwalk is the boiling water from the hot spring. The other side is the Gardner River.
The mouth of the hot spring.
It might be hard to see here, but in the water fall on the left there's steam coming off of the water.
You have to pick up the northern exit road to get there. A bunch of Elk delayed our arrival.
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