Hot Creek Hot Spring, Nevada

After a ridge walk in the White Pine Range we headed down past Lund onto another basin where numerous springs seep from the ground. Hot Creek Hot Spring was our next stop. We camped near the head of the spring, hard to spot at night in the dead grass. Morning revealed we were on the opposite side, but with plenty of access points. The spring is 85-degree water, ~20ft deep. I swam down and found a limestone crack in the bedding with tumbling sand from water pressure — likely connected to the massive Nevada aquifer system linking to Devils Hole. The spring is rather large for Nevada. Photos by Dan Straley.