Natural selection

One of the nice things about ski touring to places like the Maine Huts or the 10th Mtn Division Huts is that there is a sort of self-selection of the people you meet way out there. And the same is true of Gila Hot Springs. It is out at the end of a long dead end road, so the people who you meet there must REALLY want to be there.
We had a great time with Jane and Dean at Wilderness Lodge B+B, the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, Geronimo birthplace - and with the volunteer rangers at the monument; and the other guests at the Wilderness Lodge; from Myron and Beck, to Mark and Marian, to the nice other couple from MN who's names I can't recall after that 2,000' climb out of the super volcano caldera. Memory full!
(It took us an hour, after the "second breakfast" of granola and milk that Dean generously gave us.)
Anyway, if you are looking for a beautiful, quiet place to go and relax or explore, Gila Hot Springs could be the place for you!

If you want to meet some nice people and see some quiet, beautiful places - don't take the freeway, take the hard way. Even if yer not a botanist, expect to see some natural selection way out there.