Yesterday was Memorial Day. My wife is always looking for an excuse to get my fat gut off the sofa and out into the wilderness. So she decided to take us on a hike up to the Fifth Water Hot Springs - Diamond Fork Canyon. It is about two miles up to the hot springs and the hike is all up hill... You can ride a bicycle up the trail, but the trail is narrow in many places. Make sure if you do this hike, do it early in the morning and take plenty of water with you. We didn't take sufficient amount of water with us, but we were OK. Yesterday was nuts. There was an over abundance of people on the trail and at the hot sprints. Parking was non-existent.
The hike up took quite a while. I would venture a guess at 90 to 120 minutes. The springs are interesting. There is one water source where the water is very hot and then there is freezing cold water coming down from the mountain. There are some of these pools where the hot and cold water mix. What was interesting is the cold water was on the bottom and the warm/hot water was on the top. If you mixed them together, you had barely warm water. It is weird to feel cold water on you foot and on you knee you have 100 degree F water. Just an interesting phenomena. I wish I had some photos to share, but I chose not to pack the DSLR. We packed the "water" camera, but I'm too lazy to pull the photos off it.
If you are bored and you want a good hike, this is the place to go. It has lots of little waterfalls. I wouldn't mind going back and taking my camera and spending some time on the trail photographing the water. I like long exposure water photos. They are cool.
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