Hiking out of Snoqualmie Pass there was a reroute around a small fire which took us 3000 feet up to Snow Lake, then 4000 feet straight back down to the Middle Fork Trail. It was brutally steep and badly maintained by PCT standards, but well worth it, because it took us by Goldmeyer Hotsprings.
The hotsprings are the best I’ve ever been to. It’s a hot sulphur spring, beginning deep in a cave and cascading out into two smaller pools, situated in lush old growth forest on Burntboot Creek. The hotsprings are privately owned and managed for conservation purposes, which keeps them pristine. Moreover, the road to the hotsprings has been washed out, making it an eleven mile trek over rough terrain at minimum. We had the hotsprings all to ourselves. PCT hikers have been the only visitors all summer so caretakers were super kind to us, asking us to pay what we could instead of the full $15 and taking tons of time to talk with us. Hippoducky, the pink rubber bath toy Firefly gave me back in Old Station, was especially happy there.
Happy hiking~
I inquired at the motel by the truck stop about Goldmyer, I haven’t been there in 27 years, last I had heard it was blasted shut. Glad all that was just too keep out the trash. Nice to see that it is cared for and being held to some natural standards. My wife and I were there on our first date lots has happened since. Hope to get there again and forget about all this out here for a while.