Almost exactly a year after my first trip up the Alaskan Highway I was once again on the Alaskan Highway. Masochism? Self-hate? What were my motivations to make this ghastly-long drive basically twice in the same year? The big one this time was the wedding of two good friends from college. The Alaska-Bozeman connection was [...]
This weekend the GF and I headed out to Portland, and along the way finally stopped in at Renova Hot Springs. It is the last of the free, public, undeveloped hot springs in my neck of the Montana woods. There are lots of Hot Springs around the Montana Rockies, but most are developed, or on [...]
I’ve been meaning to make this post about my visit to the Boiling River hot spring in Yellowstone for a while, but I’ve been pretty busy with work and skiing. Anyway, here it is now:
The Boiling River is a primitive hot spring just inside the North entrance to Yellowstone National Park - between Gardiner and [...]
On Sunday I finally checked out Potosi Hot Spring. Being a hot spring enthusiast and hobbiest of sorts I had been meaning to go soak in Potosi for a long time. Potosi is a small undeveloped (”primitive”) pool near Pony, MT (the place where all that snow fell in early October). Actually, there was a [...]
