Rather than go home immediately in the morning (January 18, 2010 Marting Luther King Day) after an overnite stay at the Elk Mountain Lodge in Jemez, we decided to hike up to Spence Hot Springs. Although it is a very short hike in, we did have to find our way around a trail that had turned into a river of ice.
As we got closer to the springs, the ice and snow disappeared, replaced by watercress growing at the stream's edge... in January!
Our reward...
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Oh wow what a place!I am also very much nature lover and like to be it nature as well as.So I like to stay at bank of river and this is my dream.Zabeth I feel jealous for you!!
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