Hoover Dam Hot Springs Hike: Arizona
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2019
- Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #357
The hike to Arizona Hot Springs on the Colorado River in Black Canyon, by the Hoover Dam, isn't easy -- people die attempting it every year! Aside from a confusing trail and a sketchy metal ladder you have to climb, it also gets REALLY hot down there...so much so that the Park Service closes the trail between Memorial Day and Labor Day. My friends and I hiked it just after the trail reopened in October...then camped at Kingman Wash, and cruised around Lake Mead to the Hoover Dam to check out the low lake levels.
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‘Stay above the equator’...yowsa...funny stuff...another great video Sarah....so informative, as always....
We used traffic cones during floods to fill sand bags for elderly citizens of the town I worked for. Any older or handicapped person could get as many sandbags filled by the public works crews as they needed. We also delivered the bags to their homes if they didn't have family to help them. Makes me feel good knowing others have learned this little trick.
Loved this hike. So beautiful. So happy you met the gentleman who builds the walls. We had the opportunity to meet him as well. Such a nice man. Great video and thanks for sharing.
Kudos to Sarah and her gang. Thanks for dragging us along. Cheers.
Are big horn sheep are quite tame. They will hang out bye the road side and just stare at you as you drive bye “right next to them” Cool Video girl. Love your videos!
I always appreciate the respect you show others instead of arguing your right with them. I wish more people would do that. Happy Trails!
Awesome video of you having a great time! Thank you for taking us along for a fun journey! The scenery was spectacular! Best wishes for another great adventure this fall! 🌅🌺🧧
It's wild to see exactly how low, Lake Mead really is today! Amazing!
Love your video's. I am so glad how you find out info on all the places you go to and tell us about it. So informative, love it. Be safe.
Thank you, thank you. You are so funny, insightful and entertaining to watch. God Bless you!
You are definitely upping the ante with the editing and shooting skills. Having to set the cameras for all those walk-past shots must double the time
it takes to hike anywhere! Larry helping, too, I can tell. Makes for some really high-quality hiking footage! Good Job!
Wow, awesome video!
I'd been tempted by that spring, but the idea of a tough trip kind of made me wimp out a few times.
This has got to be my next weekend trip, unless I see a different vid that shows something better and closer!
Very Beautiful and the scenery is nice too!
Thank you for this video it is definitely helping me decide which hike to do as I’m laying in my car at Hoover Dam camping
The water is so low there is now a ghost town that used to be under the lake and has now reappeared. It’s fun to check out.
I really enjoy your video. Great job !
Another great vid! Keep em coming!
YOU REALLY ROCK SARAH!FANTASTIC..SAFE TRAVELS...
Great adventure 😷😨...awe poor coyote 😔....Glad to see you and your friends enjoying nature like we should with peace and fun and tranquility 😷✌😀😇
Cool. You go to the coolest places.. love your videos
Saw your other video about the hot springs, both are great! Will always watch you with your swim suit on or off!!! Stay Safe!!!!
Great video...looks like big fun. 😎
You ought to come down to the magic circle before the crowds hit. Weather is perfect now and the full moon made for ghostly cool early evening strolls the last couple of nights. Only around 30 campers over the area presently. Oh, they don't have stickers to sell just yet, so it's free right now.
Love your coyote skull! Wish I was physically able to make such a trek. Safe travels y'all!
Someday when the Wonderhussy time is done and she drifts silently though to the clear blue sky the the kindred spirits will ask her to recall the thrill of it all she may reply , exploring the desert with my friends where I Truly do feel free, but most of all my hot springs is where I really want to be.
Thank you wonderhussy!
Hello wonderhussy. Your friend Ted from Texas here. I love your hot springs videos dashain the people have two litter though. Enjoyed in my friend see you in the next video. Which I'm saving for tonight. Have yourself a good day stay safe, glad to see you wearing hiking boots
And a good time was had by all. SJ your outdoor ethics are amazing. I wish everyone thought to pick up 5 pieces of trash on an outing. As well as, you are so knowledgeable about the desert and its environs. Please stay awesome. Hi to your sister, she should stay awesome too.
Damn you are good. Taking one for the team... AGAIN. Take care of ya brain Miss. Your adventures are great fun and I'm a touch friggin jealous. Cheers from Australia
Ok WH...I love your vids! Ive been watching for year now. Also at 8:40 your Suit Looks Fabulous ;-)
Crazy Lady..Love it.......keep traveling darlin.
Well that was a totally awesome video you're on a roll they're all good be sure great thank you
your fitbit probably has a temperature limit too. Fun hike!
Awesome video and content. Especially You.
You are So fun Wonderhussy! I wish I could live half of the way you Do! Rock on sista, all the way from New zealand. :) :)
This is my fave so far..
I use to jet ski and camp at that cove in 1995! Brings back a lot of great memories.
Digging new editing skills.crazy how low the water is.
Happy hike'n😎
Massive cool video! ❤️
Awesome! Stay safe....
Your coyote skull still has its nose. Creepy. Great video, as always.
Awesome place!
Love you wonderhussy 💕💕👍
Love the bighorn sheep and the tour. If you go to Bandon in Canada these guys and gals come right down to the ranger station to lick the salt off the road side. You got really close here which is awesome
Wouldn't want to be hiking down that wash during a thunderstorm. Yikers.
Super excited
Awesome place... thanks for the info
It's awesome beautiful I love you videos thanks for sharing with us
You look so native hiking in your two piece. I have been sun burnt in places that never saw the sun. Not any fun. Grrrraet show.
Wonderhussy superpowers: Can hike anywhere in flip flops. Can wear huge sunglasses on the tip of her nose. Can soak naked in any water. Find stuff for her next costume in the desert. She knows where the middle of nowhere is. Is absolutely immune to hantavirus.
Weakness: She is on a budget
Loved that toes and sunset shot! Another great WH adventure. Just like being there. Thanks for all you do WH!
Gotta have a great snowpack this winter to raise water levels.
1978-79 I was 16 yrs old and a friend heard about these hot springs, Three pools springs I think. We piled in a pickup and headed to AZ side. We drove off the hwy on a sorta path and drove as far as we could then hiked the rest. It was an awesome day. Unfortunately when we got back to the truck it would not start. We had to hike back to the hwy and hitchhike back to Vegas. We were at least 6 ppl and a guy in a van picked us all up and took us right to our neighborhood, Paradise Village townhomes at Tropicana and Eastern
Good times. Think this was my last day working at Micky D's as i was a no call no show lol.
WOW!!! Those hot springs are awesome. There are a few people who died building that damn and are still inside it....
I dislocated my ankle when I got to the river. Took me 5hrs to hobble out in 2011. Been there and camped 3 or 4 times.
WH is great at hiking...she hiked up that dangerous Mountain in Joshua Tree Park...with no shoes!
My wife and I love your Hot Spring videos . We have traveled to most of them and we always wonder if we will run into you someday. We will be in Vegas for the Sema Show and if thats something go to we would love to meet you there. Maybe have a beer and check out some awesome cars / toyota 4 runners ha ha. We love your videos keep them coming.
Hey Sarah,You should check out Verde hot springs near strawberry AZ.Its an abandon resort that closed back in1962.
Love this spot.. yeah, water is low.. Wanna see big horn sheep?? Go to Heinemen field in Boulder City... it’s by the 76 station on the way towards the lake...
Very nice location 😊 big like for you 👍
I do the exact same thing when I'm out hiking, camping, canoeing...whatever. litter drives me buts and I always try to bring some back with me
One of these days I'll go check out that part of the country
So freaging hot down here.
.....Like your smile..... Love your style..... Glad that you could chat a while.....!!
Love the skull!
I’m sure that 99% of the people that travel that highway have no idea that such beautiful trails and springs lie beneath them
I mean, that’s not a bad thing…
great back. I'll fallow any where .
Have you been to Lolo Hot Springs in Montana or the ones in Thermopolis, Wyoming?
Hi Sarah, great video. You think this dam water level is down, here in Australia we have one that is completely dry and another one that is at 6% of its full mark. And my local dam is 25% but it is amazing the things that exposed when the dam level drops.
What a wonderful trip! I remember you at that hot springs before. Thanks for taking us with you all!
I have been to the hover damn many times but never camping where you did, great fun you all had. Thanks again 😊
The "mighty" Colorado? It's a creek! Now the mighty Mississippi...that's a river!
I know it's not polite to ask a lady her age... But dang it I can't even begin to guesstimate wonder hussy's age... She acts very young but some of the knowledge she has seems beyond her age ... Hussy thanks again for showing us all of these places most of us wouldn't know about and even fewer will get to see...oh and thanks for all the enthusiasm while showing us these places
My first trip to lake Mead was around 1994. The water level was just below the white line back then.
I knew Kenneth Bechtel in the 1970s when they lived at 100 rock road, Marin county.
His grandfather founded the company that built the Hoover dam in the 1930s
Another keeper. Thanks for taking me along.
damn ! we were in Vegas (from phx az)from the 4th to the 7th and looking for stuff to do other than just the downtown vegas bs.I figured any hot springs would be too far away but we did find some cool stuff down by ..nelson" Nevada? some old mines and sort of a museum town .and we checked out some cool stuff around town but dang! had we looked a little more into hot springs we may have ended up running into you guys. my wife was really wanting to go to a hot spring.
I did that hike heading back from Henderson to PHOENIX. I was by myself, boogieing along. I think i just had my camelback. It was several years ago. I also camped at Lake Mead and went boating with some people i met because they needed a rider so they could go waterskiing. I was laying out at Lake Mead in my bathing suit and there was a stalker watching me lay out. He was staying in a motor home out there and was really weird so i left.
Just found your channel. Look forward to checking out your videos.
One of my You Tube friends is moving to that general area next spring. She's moving to the Fort Mojave community, and she's going to set up an Air B&B about a mile or so from the river. Please drop in on her next summer, if you're in that vicinity.
I love slot canyons... The tighter the slot the better the canyon!
and the wetter the better, especially in hot weather !
Wow! What a tour.(8-). Thanks, hike version...gives a whole new perspective to the area. So now I have it from the boat trip style to the shank's mares style trip(8-)
By the way, you're just too damned cute for my own good.(8-)
I live near Houston, I was next to a Jeep on back window was a sticker "HIKE FASTER< I HEAR BANJO MUSIC" ...Think Deliverance......I thought pretty funny
Nice vid wh
You always crack me up. Thanks for the show. Do you have your own channel off TH-cam? I wondered where all the hours of unedited video ended up.
I'm not sure but I think part of the water resource problems in that area is the Government subsidized cotton farming in Arizona?
Nice boots!
Made me laugh, Oh look a little coyote skull, few moments later, found a use for the map! Hard to believe the nose was still attached too
You're special!!
Thanks for another great video. Editing must be a bugger!
You sure have some cute hiking outfits
Next time you are in Boulder City, stop by Hemingway park, tons of sheep hang out there all day.
Your fun!
I was on lake mead in 92
Doesn’t look familiar
It’s sad that it’s changed so much
Shallower water will allways be much much hotter, it doesn’t have deep water , so-it’s like boiling water on the stove, thanks BigAl California.
ya should carry a thermometer to tell us how hot the water is...that would be great..
She has one but she uses the foot test. If she pulls back it's too hot.
LOL, you're kicking your own ass with your shoes hanging off the back.
Great video, very informative, amazing woman...
In Hawaii, there are nudist here but they hide on cliffs. I kayak by them.
I mean...Lake Mead provides water for 7 states and millions of people. Where do you expect the water levels to be?