New Year’s Eve
Avalanche Ranch Hot Springs
Today we soaked in the new hot spring pools at Avalanche Ranch near Redstone. This is a natural hot spring in the sense that they don’t heat or treat the water in any way. They did however dig a well at a geological hot seam (Penny hot spring is a mile upstream and there are others nearby including Glenwood Springs hot spring). Apparently they got lucky and tapped a hot spring on their first try. They pipe the water to the pools and then circulate it back underground so there is no net water table loss. Interesting idea.
Later this afternoon we took a long walk up the valley. No skiing today. Tonight is the NYE party here at the Inn. I’ll be surprised if we can stay awake until midnight, we almost never do.
So this posting concludes my year long project. I ended up with 68 posts, averaging a little over one per week. This is the point where you might expect a recap of the year. Lucky for you, I hate that kind of thing, mainly because if you were actually interested in knowing what went on with me this year, you can go back and read it online as it happened! My blogging won’t end though, stay tuned for the next phase…
The one recap I do have is that this was not the year of the comet as I speculated in my first post of the year.
Last pic of 2013 is Chair Mountain from Redstone.
Happy 2014!
Posted in Journal by Mark with 1 comment.
THANK YOU!!
I dread those annual recap-of-the-year things. (Though at least yours wouldn’t have been about whatever the hell your annoying children did all year.)