Tag: Willow Creek Hot Springs

  • 20260316-18 Whitehorse Butte & Pueblo Mtns

    20260316-18 Whitehorse Butte & Pueblo Mtns

    Birthday road trip to the desert! Spent my birthday enjoying a morning soak, a hike up to the top of Whitehorse Butte, and then, wait for it… an evening soak. Sublime time, all the way around.** Spent a night alongside Arizona Creek, on Arizona Creek Rd, with an early start to a dayhike into the…

  • 20210518 Trout Creek Mountains

    20210518 Trout Creek Mountains

    Having visited Willow Creek Hot Springs a few times, I am always left with the desire to explore those mountains the creek drains down from. For this trip, I chose to backpack from a point upstream of the hot spring to which I had hiked previously, then follow a loop up to the summit along…

  • 20210313-19 Willow Creek Hot Springs Campout

    20210313-19 Willow Creek Hot Springs Campout

    Back to the hot spring at Willow Creek for a birthday bike-n-hike-n-soak retreat. I spent Saturday thru Friday alternately soaking in the hot spring, biking up BLM roads, or hiking up roads, trails and x-country in an exploration of Willow Creek and Whitehorse Butte. Highlights include snow, wind, rain, sun, wind, flying alkali grit, amazing…