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These photographs were taken at the Boiling
River in Yellowstone Park in the fall of 2007.
It was October, and a rainbow bridged the
Gardner River as we walked out after soaking
at a spot in the river where the extreme cold of
the Gardner is infused with hot geothermal water. The Boiling River is located on the 46th
Parallel a few miles from the entrance to the
park, from Gardener, Montana. It is about a
half mile walk into the site where you can soak
and the bottom of the river is very rocky. The
trick is to find a spot where the cold an hot water mix in the right proportions for comfort.
Photographs by S.F. Roberts
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