cold air hits west side late this year, it came around Presidents Day, when the night we left Kalso Dunes, we saw amazing starts spreading all over the sky and silver milky way. but the temperature went down to 37F around desert zone.
back in October 2015 we came to White Rock Canyon with Ti-Family without knowing we could make this into a loop trail by connecting to Ringbolt Hot Springs. I do remember we saw a sign marking hot springs, and I did put a map says hot spring when I wrote that blog post, I must had a stroke... below is the previous visit.
so here we are once again, to find this mysterious hot springs we horribly missed last time, Presidents Day definitely gave us a pleasant temperature to visit Arizona, we were walking under 100F killing heat back in October 2015, now 65F in Feb 2018, after 3 years we got smarter don't we?
the hike to the river was way easier to manage without heat.
reviews online most people suggested to go down White Rock Canyon trail first and come back from the Hot Springs as a reward, river is the middle point of this loop, even though there were signs around, we missed a few and accidentally ran into a campsite.
here we go! I hear water sound!
I recommend to wear water shoes or you WILL get wet!
water gets warmer and warmer, we are close!
this could be a problem for people who wants to bring a big dog to the hot spring, I will say go from the other direction to avoid this ladder unless you can manage carrying your furry friend :)
hot springs is in a narrow gulch, not sure about other season, but the day we were here were cloudly and sun couldn't get in
did I tell you you will get wet?
there were 4 pools here, it gets warmer if you move up to the next pool, water isn't as clean as deep creek hot springs, and also not much view to see if you don't stay at the first pool, but we still enjoy it!
this place is small people are staying closer to each other so I assumed this is the reason why we don't see much nudes like we did at deep creek?
hiking way out was trickier compare to White Rock Canyon trail, and we caught a golden stingray swam by the sky.
