Hot Springs - Taking the Plunge and doing Mammoth things

The forecast for our day off is a high of 51, rain and thunderstorms. So if you can't beat em join em. We head off to Hot Springs to take a dip in the 87 degree hot springs water park pool. But first we have a good breakfast - a short stack of pancakes





The drive down to HotSprings is a scenic one some of my favorite vistas



If you can't beat the rain take the plunge! Evans Plunge is an indoor/outdoor Pool/water park which is fed by the local hot springs and is a constant 87 degrees.

The Pool is 50x200 feet and the water is recycled at 5000 gallons a minute. There are two slides inside with a separate area for small children, a volleyball court and swinging rings that no one seemed to accomplish.

Gary takes the Plunge!

Gary comes out of the Chute! I only did this one once.










The outdoor slide


On to the Mammoth Site

In 1974 a bulldozer waslevelling out a mound for a housing development and turned up some Mammoth Bones.Turns outAbout 26,000 years ago a cave at the site collapsed resulting steep-sided hole, about 65 feet deep, was 120 by 150 wide at the surface.Warm artesian-fed spring waters created a pond that was attractive to wildlife. Mammoths that slipped into the hole found it difficult to escape. Over the course of the next 350 to 700 years, the hole filled with sediments and mammoth remains. As of , at least 55 individual mammoths had been identified.



Excavation at the site is ongoing



Theyhave aninteresting museum as well

A house made of mammoth bones

This depicts a wooly mammoth kill but the majority of the Mammoths found in the sinkhole were Columbian Mammoths they would have stood 14feet tall at the shoulderand weigh 8-10 tons

Well it was a Mammoth Day! Time to head home and plot out our adventures for tomorrow!



Till Later!

Meanwhile we keep on Trek'n

Melissa and Gary