Image:Hot Creek in Long Valley, California-300.JPG

Photograph of Hot Creek in Long Valley Caldera. This part of the stream follows a fault line and is well-known for its hydrothermal[?] pools and for the contrast swimmers experience between the cold stream water and the occasional plume of very hot water (which can burn swimmer's feet and can on rare occasions cause more serious injury).

Over a dozen people have died in Hot Creek since the late 1960s but most of these deaths happened to individuals who ignored the numerous warning signs and attempted to use the hydrothermal pools as hot tubs[?] (like the stream portion of the creek, these pools alternate in temperature but the eruptions in the pools are of super-heated water in already very hot water).

Image was taken on April 18, 2003 at 2:28 PM local time by Daniel Mayer and is released under terms of the GNU FDL.

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