A Liberating Hike to the Hot Springs

So Chasten and I hiked up to the hot springs with Ashlyn and Shawn the other night. It was dark, adn quite scary on the way up do to all of the rattling Ash and I heard in the bushes, til later we finally found out that it was Shawn and Chasten throwing rocks into the bushes in front of us. Turns out they just wanted us to run to them for security. :) On our way up, we ran into some hikers on their way back down the mountain. I told one of them that he smelled like sulfer, (because the hot springs are fresh water and hot sulfer, hence their rechid stench.) His reply was this: "Yeah, I smell like alcohol and dirty sex too!" Taken back, we all had to laugh. I'll admit it was pretty hilarious. When we got up to the "hot pots", we had to dim our flash lights as we got into the pools because you never know what you might find up there. It's known to have a lot of nudees. Lucky for us, the hot pots were filled primarily of college students, all of who looked to be pretty decent looking kids. AKA, we were not exposed to any nudees. Thank heaven! After being funny and daring, that's the only detail I can give, for about a half hour, Ashlyn started to get worried about the kids being at their grandparent's house (Shawn's parents), because it was getting late. So we all dried off and got dressed back into regular clothes. The hike down was liberating. Again, that's all I can really put into words about that. Very Liberating. :) All in all, it was a really fun experience, minus the cows in the middle of the dark road that we almost hit. Aisde from that, I had a great night! And it was liberating. Very Liberating.