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The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is the largest hot spring in the United States, and the third largest in the world
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Archive winter 2011-2012
Snow Monkeys in Jigokudani Yaen-koen (Hell's valley). Nagano Japan.
地獄谷温泉 ニホンザル.
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On the right side of this photo, water runs down terraces covered with thermophiles. Where the water runs calcium carbonate (travertine) is deposited. On the left side photo the dark gary terraces are currently inactive and no water runs down it. The water and travertine deposition at Mamnoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park is constantly changing and moving. The area is a moasic of inactive and active terraces. These active terraces are covered by orange, yellows and cream colored thermophilic organisms. The water for the hot springs comes from precipitation in the surrounding mountains that runs down into the subsurface. The water is heated at depth. As the water rises it dissolves limestone in the subsurface beneath Mammoth and the surrounding mountains. The hot carbonate rich water comes to the surface and forms the travertine terraces. Geologists estimate that at any given time about 10% of the water in Mammoth Hot Springs is on the surface. The other 90% remains underground.
Archive winter 2011-2012
Snow Monkeys in Jigokudani Yaen-koen (Hell's valley). Nagano Japan.
地獄谷温泉 ニホンザル.
＠Ogawasan.Copyright © All rights reserved.
Archive winter 2011-2012
Snow Monkeys in Jigokudani Yaen-koen (Hell's valley). Nagano Japan.
地獄谷温泉 ニホンザル.
＠Ogawasan.Copyright © All rights reserved.
I had to re-import all my photos from an external drive today. I'm glad I kept backups. As I was going through this years archive I found this and somehow this time, it stood out to me. Nice little area in the mountains of Japan called, "OIGAMI". Not a very well known location where I am. I like the mood and stormy sky.
Hot water is flowing through the geothermal field Hveravellir in North-Iceland.
Nearby, a greenhouse farm utilizes the energy for vegetable cultivation. This area is one of the famous geothermal fields of Iceland.
"...poems of geology stretching beyond any boundaries and seemingly even beyond the world.” ~Norman Maclean
Around the geothermally active area of Geysir, Iceland. The water here boils straight out of the ground. It really does seem like another world.
On our last day in Iceland we toured the Golden Circle, the inland route of Iceland closed to Reykjavik. One stop was Geysir, a geyser that ejects boiling water up to 70 m (230 ft) every 4-10 min. You can safely get very close to the geyser. The boy in the middle was startled, and stepped away moments later. The name Geysir is derived from the Icelandic verb geysa, which means "to gush".
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The babe and I decided to visit the Byron Hotsprings Motel today.
I actually went to this place before like seven months ago without the babe.
It was a very much more interesting experience WITH the babe. And to my surprise she actually liked it.
We hiked up to the 50 year abandoned hotel (look it up motherfucker if you haven’t heard of it, the Byron Springs Hotel).
And we explored every single room. The poor babe was subject to graffiti words like “fuck” and “666” and “I WILL KILL YOU” weird shit on the wall.
It did not phase the babe.
She pointed out the bad words. I told her not to worry about it. We climbled up the levels of this crazy place. The babe to my surprise loved it.
To sum it up, this was a hotel to the RICH AND FAMOUS during the early part of the 20th century. Then it was purchased by the US government during WWII as a Japanese kind of POW camp in the 1940’s and it has been abandonded since the 1940’s.
It’s so cool I can’t even tell you.
Some people say it’s haunted.
The babe and I decided to explore it today.
She loved every minute of it (really).
Rock on man
The babe and I decided to visit the Byron Hotsprings Motel today.
I actually went to this place before like seven months ago without the babe.
It was a very much more interesting experience WITH the babe. And to my surprise she actually liked it.
We hiked up to the 50 year abandoned hotel (look it up motherfucker if you haven’t heard of it, the Byron Springs Hotel).
And we explored every single room. The poor babe was subject to graffiti words like “fuck” and “666” and “I WILL KILL YOU” weird shit on the wall.
It did not phase the babe.
She pointed out the bad words. I told her not to worry about it. We climbled up the levels of this crazy place. The babe to my surprise loved it.
To sum it up, this was a hotel to the RICH AND FAMOUS during the early part of the 20th century. Then it was purchased by the US government during WWII as a Japanese kind of POW camp in the 1940’s and it has been abandonded since the 1940’s.
It’s so cool I can’t even tell you.
Some people say it’s haunted.
The babe and I decided to explore it today.
She loved every minute of it (really).
Rock on man
Hot Springs at Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Pagosa Springs is named by the Southwestern Ute word, "Pagosah" which now translates as, "healing waters." The all-natural, geothermal hot springs have been a driving attraction to the area for generations, and many believe the mineral-rich waters have healing qualities. The Mother Spring feeds all of the geothermal pools and waterworks in Pagosa Springs and is certified by Guinness World Records as the World's Deepest Geothermal Hot Spring Aquifer at a depth of over 1002 feet (305 meters).
all over Iceland you find these hot thermal water wels, this one is in the area of Reykjadalur;
I found it fascinating how many different forms you can detect in the water and took probably 100 photos ;-)
This is a popular getaway hotspring area with lots of hotels. More than half of those are abandoned. Beautiful gorge and surrounding mountains.