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<\/a><\/p>\nThe trail starts at a place named battleship rock, which you can see in the foreground. \u00a0It’s not a difficult hike, and it wanders along the river for a while and climbs up through giant ponderosa pines until you reach the warm spring about 1.8 miles up the trail.<\/p>\n
Unlike some of the other springs in the area, this is not a hot spring, but a warm one with water temp about 85 degrees, which is great in the summer, but downright chilly in the the winter.<\/p>\n We spent a little over \u00a0an hour \u00a0here, just soaking \u00a0in the sun and watched the dragonflys dance.<\/p>\n The small pool \u00a0at the bottom of the picture is the source and it’s big enough for four or five adults. \u00a0The large pool is very shallow but it empties into a series of other pools below. \u00a0Depending on how hot it is, the lower pools offer cooler water.<\/p>\n Our \u00a0view from the “source” pool.<\/p>\n You can click on it to enlarge, or click here<\/a> for a full sized panorama. \u00a0This years’s image includes a bush in the middle of the dam which I suspect may not last. \u00a0It wasn’t there a couple of years ago and people keep moving the rock wall which may just let it get washed away. \u00a0This is considered a “warm” spring and recently I saw someone google whether or not snakes went into hot springs in New Mexico. \u00a0I can tell you that we do see snakes, small ones, slither across the water from time to time. \u00a0They are more afraid of you than you probably are of them.<\/p>\n On our way out we stopped in Los Alamos and caught the tail end of the rodeo. \u00a0These are the teen riders, you can tell because they have to wear a helmet.<\/p>\n We drove on into Santa Fe for dinner and then did a top down cruise through the back roads home. \u00a0We were on the road for just a little over 12 hours, start to finish and wandered through over 200 miles of New Mexico back roads.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve gotten a bit tired of doing the mountain over and over again so for this morning I suggested to the Mrs. that we head on out to one of her favorite spots, the warm springs in the Jemez mountains. … Continue reading <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n