The Olympic Hot Springs Trail is a 34.1-kilometer moderately traveled out-and-back route that has hot springs and is classified as moderate. It is located near Port Angeles, Washington. The trail is best used from May to October and is mostly used for hiking, biking, camping, and backpacking.
The trek is primarily made up of a long abandoned road that has been turned into a wide trail. To encourage plant growth, the old asphalt has been removed and replaced with shredded wood, resulting in a smooth and pleasant route.
The ancient highway gives way to a narrower trail as you get closer to the hot springs. At Crystal Creek, you’ll cross a brand-new suspension bridge. After the bridge, you’ll enter a level meadow at the top of the slope (once a parking lot). Follow your nose to the hot springs and keep right at the fork. Keep an eye out on both sides of the trail, since some of the nicest ponds are hidden among the trees on both sides of the trail.
The main 16 kilometers road to Olympic Hot Springs is closed due to the two washouts, but you can transform it into a day bike uphill with a brief 3.5 kilometer hike to the hot springs, or a weekend bike and hike at a magnificent campground that used to be part of a 1920s resort. Instead of hiking out, get back on your bike and coast the entire way downhill for 16 kilometers. Along the journey, you’ll cross the remains of an old dam with a spectacular perspective of the valley. It’s worth the uphill bike Adventure, believe me.
• There is a cost to enter Olympic National Park. The fees are based on the number of vehicles or motorcycles. The charge is per person if you enter on foot or by bike. A park-specific annual pass is also available. For the most up-to-date rates, please visit the park’s website.
• Pedestrians, bicycles, and leashed dogs are welcome. The Madison Falls parking lot are available, but space is restricted (the path has been updated to reflect this route). The first 9 miles are paved and suitable for bicycling.)
Featured photo by @perksofbeinga_wildflower
Map of the journey
A few photos from my backcountry trail work with washingtontrails. Over the course of 4 days 12 of us removed countless obstacles from the Appleton Pass Trail in olympic_nps - from giant fallen trees cut and moved from the trail, to tiny slippery moss scraped from puncheons, and everything in between. We created proper drainage, improved tread, de-brushed the edges of the trail and so much more! The first photos are some of the beautiful scenery we encountered (including the park employees and mules who helped us carry tools on the way in), the last are some progress photos just for $h!ts and giggles.
#wta #bcrt #olympichotsprings #appletonpass #pnwonderland #olympicnationalpark #volunteertrailwork
Mountain biked and hiked 20 miles to spend my birthday at these beautiful secluded hot springs... ♉️🌿🤍✨
✨BLOG POST✨ Last weekend in one of the hottest moments in WA history, we went to hot springs...
Olympic Hot Springs used to be accessible by a 2 mile trail at the end of Olympic Hot Springs Road, but part of the road has been reclaimed by the Elwha River since the dam was removed in 2011.
So now you get to hike a bypass trail and hike/bike the 10 mile road to the top! We saw deer, rabbits, and lots of wildflowers; and also got to marvel at the power of a river to restore itself.
Thank you arborharbor for all these photos since I forgot my phone!
📍S'Klallam lands
#adventurecycling #adventurebybike #shredthepatriarchy #olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #hotsprings #pnwonderland #biketravel #biketour #bikecamping #cycletouring #bike
We might be hot springs addicts at this point 🤷♀️
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Yesterday was an all sport adventure to get to this spot. Part bike, part bike carry through the woods, part hike. It was a sufferfest uphill with one of our bikes stuck in two gears. Flying down the mountain on the way back was worth it though. I found myself yelling "Life is so freaking good!" And indeed it is.
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#nationalpark #hotsprings #lifeisgood #travelcouple #optoutside #adventureisoutthere #lifetimeofadventure #travelamerica #olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #wearethewild #pnwonderland
Olympic hot springs! Mountain bike 18 miles and hike 6 to get there, but so worth the work! #olympichotsprings #getoutside #explorepnw #subiecamping
~> Elwha river on the way to the Olympic hot springs! Site of the worlds largest dam ever removed!!!
Nothing quite like a long hike with a long time friend, 12 or so miles up, with this epic view half way. Multiple pools to choose from when you get there and some lovely frozen camping. Highly recommended, and let me know if you want a hiking buddy<3. I’m feeling very grateful for my peps=)
#olympicnationalpark #hiking #packbasket #elwhariver #damremoval #olympicpeninsula #olympichotsprings #wintercamping
PNTのラストセクションで、オリンピック国立公園を歩くジェフ。ハイ・ディバイドでは、南にオリンパス山、北にセブンレイクス盆地の素晴らしい景色を見ることができたようです。(写真はトレイル上から見えるオリンパス山)
- ジェフ・キッシュのHIKER LIFE with PNT | # 11 パシフィック・ノースウエスト・トレイルのスルーハイキング (その７)
※詳細は thetrailsmag のリンクからご覧ください。
#jeffkish #pacificnorthwest #pacificnorthwesttrail #pnt #pacificnorthwesttrailassociation #pnta #washington #idaho #montana #OlympicMountains #WhidbeyIsland #OlympicPeninsula #PortTownsend #OlympicHotSprings #HighDivide #OlympicNationalPark #NationalScenicTrail #longdistancehiking #thruhike #thruhiking #thetrailsmag #ロングディスタンスハイキング #ロングトレイル #トレイルズ
LoFi Hiking Society: WA Chapter
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Tag us to be featured!
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More from our trek to the Olympic hot springs 🚵♀️🌡
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#olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #washington #pnw #pnwonderland #biking #hiking #adventure #exploremore #getoutside #optoutside #explore #vanlife #roadtrip #timeofmylife
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ジェフ・キッシュのHIKER LIFE with PNT | #11 パシフィック・ノースウエスト・トレイルのスルーハイキング (その７)
いよいよ、ジェフによるPNTのスルーハイキング・レポート (全７回) も最終回！ 約２カ月、1,930kmの旅も、ついにフィナーレを迎えます。
今回ジェフが歩くのは、PNTの西側のラストセクション。ロッキー山脈やカスケード山脈を抜け、西に進むと、PNTは太平洋にたどり着きます。
それまでの山岳風景から一変して、田園、海、町の景色が広がるようになります。今までと違うPNTの景色を楽しみながら、PNTの旅をかみしめるジェフ。
ジェフの人生を変えたPNTスルーハイキング。そのラストセクションのレポートを、お楽しみください。
※詳細は thetrailsmag のリンクからご覧ください。
#jeffkish #pacificnorthwest #pacificnorthwesttrail #pnt #pacificnorthwesttrailassociation #pnta #washington #idaho #montana #OlympicMountains #WhidbeyIsland #OlympicPeninsula #PortTownsend #OlympicHotSprings #HighDivide #OlympicNationalPark #NationalScenicTrail #longdistancehiking #thruhike #thruhiking #thetrailsmag #ロングディスタンスハイキング #ロングトレイル #トレイルズ
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한주의 피로를 싹- 풀어줄
♨️Olympic Hot Springs (올림픽 핫 스프링)
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누적된 피로를 개운하게 씻어줄 온천을 소개해드려요🤗!
올림픽 핫 스프링은 북미에서 가장 아름다운 온천장으로, 왕복 5마일 정도의 짧고 완만한 등산 코스인 보더 크릭 트레일(Boulder Creek Trail) 끝에 위치해있어요. 나무들 사이에 널려있는 12개의 작은 웅덩이들이 화씨 100도에서 138도 사이를 유지하고 있답니다.
✔️온천만 둘러보기 심심하다면, 올림픽 국립공원 내 포트 앤젤리스 남쪽 방향 약 20마일 지점에 산책 코스도 있으니 참고하세요!
올림픽 핫 스프링의 입장료는 차량 당 25불이고 7일 간 사용할 수 있어요.(물론 변동이 있을 수 있으니 꼭 확인하고 가셔요:))
보더 크릭 캠프 그라운드에서 캠핑까지 가능하답니다.
참고 사이트: wta.org
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#올림픽국립공원 #레이니어마운틴 #워싱턴주 #시애틀 #씨애틀 #시애틀여행 #씨애틀여행 #미국서부 #미서부 #미국서부여행🇺🇸 #미서부여행🇺🇸 #미서부여행 #미국서부여행 #washingtonexplored #seattlelife #washingtonstate #seattlewa #olympicpark #olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #olympicnationalforest #washingtontrails
Adding to my collection of outhouse drawings...I’m always drawn to the elemental simplicity of these structures and the pure, functional aesthetic.
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Plus, everyone always needs some quirky bathroom art. Check the link in my bio to browse hundreds of sketches and paintings from my more than three years living and creating art on the road.
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#outhouse #privy #pittoilet #toilet #naturecalls #natureshead #architecture #woods #trees #wilderness #halfmoon #olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #drawing #penandink #sketchbook #sketchbookart #art #inkdrawing #pleinair #drawnthere
10/31-11/1/20 ID: Phyllis’ right hand is holding the iPhone for a selfie. Her right arm has a pura vida bracelet on and her world map tattoo is visible. Her hair is pulled into a bun. She’s lying face forward inside one of the soaking pools at the Olympic hot springs. At the edge of the pool are piled up rocks that create the pool.
#olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark #nps #portangeles #wa #hikewashington #hotsprings #exploreyourparks #nobaddays #travelstoke #wanderwashington #wta #upperleftusa #pnwonderland #optoutside #backpacking
I just want to make a quick appreciation post about fiddleheadfabrications for making me my dream shelter last year.
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I wanted a lightweight shelter that could sleep two, but still weighs well under two pounds. I also didnt want to give up the convenience of cowboy camping in a bugbivy like I do most nights with my one-person setup.
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So pederhoiland and I got to talking about the possibility of a tarp with a removable bathtub floor that can zip into a bug-bivy. A few months later and he mails me this beauty. I know, I don't have a picture of it in bivy-mode, but trust me, it's awesome.
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This shelter took some serious design and I'm eternally grateful that my friend put so much time, love, and effort into creating it.
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Thanks, Peder 🙏
#makeyourowngear #myog #diy #fiddleheadfabrications #fiddleheadfabulous #fiddleheadfab #dyneema #ultralight #bugbivy #tarp #ripstopbytheroll #olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark
Soaking our troubles away 🛁✨🌿
Jk, we were actually screaming about the spiders and dead frogs 99% of the time 😂 but there’s nothing a bag of wine & good company can’t solve 🍷👯♀️
#olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark #hotsprings #backpackerbabes
Natural hot springs in Olympic national park. My own personal jacuzzi in the forest 😍🙌 #olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark #washingtonstate #washington #hotsprings #nature #relaxing #paradise #soak #healing #forest #westcoast #hiking #roadtrip #adventure
A song “straight from the source” of hot springs...
The first part came to me soaking in the Olympic Hot springs last November. Forgot about it, until I found myself at another warm springs, this time on the Big Island (with a whole long crazy story of synchronicity involving calling kiragoboom on the wireless coconut - really does work - and then running into her at Pohoiki beach and finding the “Queens Bath”), and I remembered that hot spring song nugget and Kira and I added two other parts to it. Same earth, same heat source, different portals.
Got to visit one of my fav hot springs in Oregon the other day and then shortly thereafter cross paths with Kira, so figured I’d make a video of it!
Straight from the source, delivered to you, via Samara and Kira and the #Acapellaapp and Instagram.
Grateful for the opportunity to visit these sacred earth portals...truly a well spring of warmth, love and song! .
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#hotsprings #hotspring #earthsongs #straightfromthesource #portals #synchronicity #communitysinging #collaboration #singing #originalsong #circlesongs #songcirclesongs #tourmagic #oregonmagic #olympichotsprings #wirelesscoconut #coconutwireless #harmonies #layeredsong #songsforsinging
The Olympic Hot Springs. I soaked in that first one for a bit. And no I won’t send you a selfie… 😉🤣
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#olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark #pnw #pnwlifestyle #pnwlife #olympicpeninsula #hotsprings #elwhariver #rei #optoutside #reimember #takemebackpacking
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A few photos from my backcountry trail work with washingtontrails. Over the course of 4 days 12 of us removed countless obstacles from the Appleton Pass Trail in olympic_nps - from giant fallen trees cut and moved from the trail, to tiny slippery moss scraped from puncheons, and everything in between. We created proper drainage, improved tread, de-brushed the edges of the trail and so much more! The first photos are some of the beautiful scenery we encountered (including the park employees and mules who helped us carry tools on the way in), the last are some progress photos just for $h!ts and giggles.
#wta #bcrt #olympichotsprings #appletonpass #pnwonderland #olympicnationalpark #volunteertrailwork
Mountain biked and hiked 20 miles to spend my birthday at these beautiful secluded hot springs... ♉️🌿🤍✨
✨BLOG POST✨ Last weekend in one of the hottest moments in WA history, we went to hot springs...
Olympic Hot Springs used to be accessible by a 2 mile trail at the end of Olympic Hot Springs Road, but part of the road has been reclaimed by the Elwha River since the dam was removed in 2011.
So now you get to hike a bypass trail and hike/bike the 10 mile road to the top! We saw deer, rabbits, and lots of wildflowers; and also got to marvel at the power of a river to restore itself.
Thank you arborharbor for all these photos since I forgot my phone!
📍S'Klallam lands
#adventurecycling #adventurebybike #shredthepatriarchy #olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #hotsprings #pnwonderland #biketravel #biketour #bikecamping #cycletouring #bike
We might be hot springs addicts at this point 🤷♀️
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Yesterday was an all sport adventure to get to this spot. Part bike, part bike carry through the woods, part hike. It was a sufferfest uphill with one of our bikes stuck in two gears. Flying down the mountain on the way back was worth it though. I found myself yelling "Life is so freaking good!" And indeed it is.
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#nationalpark #hotsprings #lifeisgood #travelcouple #optoutside #adventureisoutthere #lifetimeofadventure #travelamerica #olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #wearethewild #pnwonderland
Olympic hot springs! Mountain bike 18 miles and hike 6 to get there, but so worth the work! #olympichotsprings #getoutside #explorepnw #subiecamping
~> Elwha river on the way to the Olympic hot springs! Site of the worlds largest dam ever removed!!!
Nothing quite like a long hike with a long time friend, 12 or so miles up, with this epic view half way. Multiple pools to choose from when you get there and some lovely frozen camping. Highly recommended, and let me know if you want a hiking buddy<3. I’m feeling very grateful for my peps=)
#olympicnationalpark #hiking #packbasket #elwhariver #damremoval #olympicpeninsula #olympichotsprings #wintercamping
PNTのラストセクションで、オリンピック国立公園を歩くジェフ。ハイ・ディバイドでは、南にオリンパス山、北にセブンレイクス盆地の素晴らしい景色を見ることができたようです。(写真はトレイル上から見えるオリンパス山)
- ジェフ・キッシュのHIKER LIFE with PNT | # 11 パシフィック・ノースウエスト・トレイルのスルーハイキング (その７)
※詳細は thetrailsmag のリンクからご覧ください。
#jeffkish #pacificnorthwest #pacificnorthwesttrail #pnt #pacificnorthwesttrailassociation #pnta #washington #idaho #montana #OlympicMountains #WhidbeyIsland #OlympicPeninsula #PortTownsend #OlympicHotSprings #HighDivide #OlympicNationalPark #NationalScenicTrail #longdistancehiking #thruhike #thruhiking #thetrailsmag #ロングディスタンスハイキング #ロングトレイル #トレイルズ
LoFi Hiking Society: WA Chapter
📷: thetravelingbeachbum
Tag us to be featured!
#lofihikingsociety
#lofihike
💫
More from our trek to the Olympic hot springs 🚵♀️🌡
🌼
🌼
🌼
#olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #washington #pnw #pnwonderland #biking #hiking #adventure #exploremore #getoutside #optoutside #explore #vanlife #roadtrip #timeofmylife
[New!] AMBASSADOR'S
ジェフ・キッシュのHIKER LIFE with PNT | #11 パシフィック・ノースウエスト・トレイルのスルーハイキング (その７)
いよいよ、ジェフによるPNTのスルーハイキング・レポート (全７回) も最終回！ 約２カ月、1,930kmの旅も、ついにフィナーレを迎えます。
今回ジェフが歩くのは、PNTの西側のラストセクション。ロッキー山脈やカスケード山脈を抜け、西に進むと、PNTは太平洋にたどり着きます。
それまでの山岳風景から一変して、田園、海、町の景色が広がるようになります。今までと違うPNTの景色を楽しみながら、PNTの旅をかみしめるジェフ。
ジェフの人生を変えたPNTスルーハイキング。そのラストセクションのレポートを、お楽しみください。
※詳細は thetrailsmag のリンクからご覧ください。
#jeffkish #pacificnorthwest #pacificnorthwesttrail #pnt #pacificnorthwesttrailassociation #pnta #washington #idaho #montana #OlympicMountains #WhidbeyIsland #OlympicPeninsula #PortTownsend #OlympicHotSprings #HighDivide #OlympicNationalPark #NationalScenicTrail #longdistancehiking #thruhike #thruhiking #thetrailsmag #ロングディスタンスハイキング #ロングトレイル #トレイルズ
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한주의 피로를 싹- 풀어줄
♨️Olympic Hot Springs (올림픽 핫 스프링)
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누적된 피로를 개운하게 씻어줄 온천을 소개해드려요🤗!
올림픽 핫 스프링은 북미에서 가장 아름다운 온천장으로, 왕복 5마일 정도의 짧고 완만한 등산 코스인 보더 크릭 트레일(Boulder Creek Trail) 끝에 위치해있어요. 나무들 사이에 널려있는 12개의 작은 웅덩이들이 화씨 100도에서 138도 사이를 유지하고 있답니다.
✔️온천만 둘러보기 심심하다면, 올림픽 국립공원 내 포트 앤젤리스 남쪽 방향 약 20마일 지점에 산책 코스도 있으니 참고하세요!
올림픽 핫 스프링의 입장료는 차량 당 25불이고 7일 간 사용할 수 있어요.(물론 변동이 있을 수 있으니 꼭 확인하고 가셔요:))
보더 크릭 캠프 그라운드에서 캠핑까지 가능하답니다.
참고 사이트: wta.org
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#올림픽국립공원 #레이니어마운틴 #워싱턴주 #시애틀 #씨애틀 #시애틀여행 #씨애틀여행 #미국서부 #미서부 #미국서부여행🇺🇸 #미서부여행🇺🇸 #미서부여행 #미국서부여행 #washingtonexplored #seattlelife #washingtonstate #seattlewa #olympicpark #olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #olympicnationalforest #washingtontrails
Adding to my collection of outhouse drawings...I’m always drawn to the elemental simplicity of these structures and the pure, functional aesthetic.
—
Plus, everyone always needs some quirky bathroom art. Check the link in my bio to browse hundreds of sketches and paintings from my more than three years living and creating art on the road.
—
#outhouse #privy #pittoilet #toilet #naturecalls #natureshead #architecture #woods #trees #wilderness #halfmoon #olympicnationalpark #olympichotsprings #drawing #penandink #sketchbook #sketchbookart #art #inkdrawing #pleinair #drawnthere
10/31-11/1/20 ID: Phyllis’ right hand is holding the iPhone for a selfie. Her right arm has a pura vida bracelet on and her world map tattoo is visible. Her hair is pulled into a bun. She’s lying face forward inside one of the soaking pools at the Olympic hot springs. At the edge of the pool are piled up rocks that create the pool.
#olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark #nps #portangeles #wa #hikewashington #hotsprings #exploreyourparks #nobaddays #travelstoke #wanderwashington #wta #upperleftusa #pnwonderland #optoutside #backpacking
I just want to make a quick appreciation post about fiddleheadfabrications for making me my dream shelter last year.
.
I wanted a lightweight shelter that could sleep two, but still weighs well under two pounds. I also didnt want to give up the convenience of cowboy camping in a bugbivy like I do most nights with my one-person setup.
.
So pederhoiland and I got to talking about the possibility of a tarp with a removable bathtub floor that can zip into a bug-bivy. A few months later and he mails me this beauty. I know, I don't have a picture of it in bivy-mode, but trust me, it's awesome.
.
This shelter took some serious design and I'm eternally grateful that my friend put so much time, love, and effort into creating it.
.
Thanks, Peder 🙏
#makeyourowngear #myog #diy #fiddleheadfabrications #fiddleheadfabulous #fiddleheadfab #dyneema #ultralight #bugbivy #tarp #ripstopbytheroll #olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark
Soaking our troubles away 🛁✨🌿
Jk, we were actually screaming about the spiders and dead frogs 99% of the time 😂 but there’s nothing a bag of wine & good company can’t solve 🍷👯♀️
#olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark #hotsprings #backpackerbabes
Natural hot springs in Olympic national park. My own personal jacuzzi in the forest 😍🙌 #olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark #washingtonstate #washington #hotsprings #nature #relaxing #paradise #soak #healing #forest #westcoast #hiking #roadtrip #adventure
A song “straight from the source” of hot springs...
The first part came to me soaking in the Olympic Hot springs last November. Forgot about it, until I found myself at another warm springs, this time on the Big Island (with a whole long crazy story of synchronicity involving calling kiragoboom on the wireless coconut - really does work - and then running into her at Pohoiki beach and finding the “Queens Bath”), and I remembered that hot spring song nugget and Kira and I added two other parts to it. Same earth, same heat source, different portals.
Got to visit one of my fav hot springs in Oregon the other day and then shortly thereafter cross paths with Kira, so figured I’d make a video of it!
Straight from the source, delivered to you, via Samara and Kira and the #Acapellaapp and Instagram.
Grateful for the opportunity to visit these sacred earth portals...truly a well spring of warmth, love and song! .
.
#hotsprings #hotspring #earthsongs #straightfromthesource #portals #synchronicity #communitysinging #collaboration #singing #originalsong #circlesongs #songcirclesongs #tourmagic #oregonmagic #olympichotsprings #wirelesscoconut #coconutwireless #harmonies #layeredsong #songsforsinging
The Olympic Hot Springs. I soaked in that first one for a bit. And no I won’t send you a selfie… 😉🤣
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#olympichotsprings #olympicnationalpark #pnw #pnwlifestyle #pnwlife #olympicpeninsula #hotsprings #elwhariver #rei #optoutside #reimember #takemebackpacking
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