almost tea time Traditional Cache
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This cache is placed so you have a nice hike in an area with lots of history. Teapot Dome which is located one mile SE of this location was a guide for the those pioneers traveling west. To my knowledge the springs are no longer active.
excerpt from a letter written in 1843
"In about nine miles the road brought us to a group of smoking hot springs, with a temperature of 164 [degrees]. There were a few helianthi in bloom, with some other low plants, and the place was green round about; the ground warm, and the air pleasant, with a summer atmosphere that was very grateful in a day of high and cold searching wind. The rocks were covered with a white and red incrustation; and the water has on the tongue the same unpleasant effect as that of the Basin spring on Bear river. They form several branches, and bubble up with force enough to raise the small pebbles several inches.
"These springs are near the foot of the ridge, (a dark and rugged looking mountain,) in which some of the nearer rocks have a reddish appearance, and probably consist of a reddish-brown trap, fragments of which were scattered along the road after leaving the spring."
excerpt from a letter written in 1844
"Started at seven o'clock and nooned on the branch of the Hot or Boiling Spring. This spring is one of the curiosities of nature. The water boils out of the ground in five or more places boiling hot and makes a branch large enough to run an overshot mill. Camped on a small branch four miles west of the Hot Spring [Rattlesnake Creek]."
Summary: In 1852, emigrants began crossing the river in this area and followed the North Alternate to the Teapot Dome hot springs vicinity, where it rejoined the main Trail.
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