It's a little late now, but there is a man in Denver who creates seat mesh/seat covers for all sorts of recumbent brands. I haven't ordered from him, but other online users seem happy.

Does this route revisit any of the roads you did on your Yellowstone (?) tour? I don't consider that a negative, I like to revisit favorite spots.

We enjoyed this section of the Sierra Cascades route. You will get some good photographs.

Gadsden Hotel is still on my bucket list. I planned to go to Douglas during a bike tour but ended up not going there.

I didn't know about Studebaker's early history until reading this sign. I suspect many early auto manufacturers started as coach manufacturers, but was surprised to read that the Studebaker company was a defense contractor BEFORE the Civil War.

Interesting. I didn’t realize that Studebaker had a history before the automobile era.

Beautiful place. Makes me think of the Gadsden Hotel in Douglas, AZ for some reason.

This looks really familiar. I might have been scrounging here 40 years ago looking for cardboard box material so I could bike box my bike for a ride back to Salem. You’re right, the town really hasn’t changed all that much.

You beat me to it. I was going to make a similar comment.

My arithmetic converts 2 million gallons per day to 1389 gallons per minute. Assuming a quarter of it is diverted to the RV Park and a couple adjacent land owners, it's still 1000 gallons per minute of 186F water flowing into the lake. I would keep my distance from the hot pipe, but there must be a large area of the lake that is pleasantly warm. Paddling is prohibited in Hot Lake because people would inevitably paddle too close to the source pipe.

I think it's a GOOD question.

The source spring flows 2 million gallons per day at 186F. In September they weren't extracting much heat for the building, so the water flowing into the lake is probably not much below 186F. I doubt you would be fatally burned if you get in the lake more than 50 feet from the hot pipe, but the insurance company doesn't want clueless visitors to make that judgement call.

It seems incredible that you could get fatal burns if you go into the lake. How hot is it? (Dumb question. It must be scalding hot.)

They really do look blue.

Neat old hotel!