Toobin! Lava Hot Springs

[Sombeech]

Who's been to Lava Hot Springs, ID? It's an hour and a half from Ogden.

Most people know about the high dives in their olympic sized swimming pool, but a lot of people miss the greatest attraction, which is tubing the river.

This is one of the best rivers to go tubing on. And, on this river, the more the merrier. You can see a lot of funny "tube dumps" by the inexperieced.

Click here for the video

There's a few things you must know before you brave the rapids of Lava. The river rock is mostly that, Lava rock. You MUST wear sandles or watersocks. I would suggest Wal-Mart watersocks for $5. They worked great. The tubes can be rented from 4 stands along main street.

There are multiple places to put in, or enter the river. Most people put in below the falls, which I WOULDN'T suggest. The falls, which are 5' and 6' tall, bring most of the excitement to the ride. Either place to put in, can be from the same parking lot though.

There is a right and a wrong way to go down each waterfall. The wrong way usually results in tipping over, and possible "Lava Rash".

I've got a short video clip, which I would suggest watching. My wife and I are in the green tubes at the first, then everybody else are strangers.

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BTW, most pictures taken with a disposable waterproof camera from Wal-Mart.

[derstuka]

Thanks for the pictures! Looks like a lot of fun!

[Sombeech]

Thanks for the pictures! Looks like a lot of fun!

Thanks. Yeah, it was a blast. We may go up again this year.

[derstuka]

Wherebouts is this now? How far was it from SLC for you?

[derstuka]

Forget my last message. I see I skipped right over where you said it was. Whoops

[accadacca]

So how long is the section that you tube?

[Sombeech]

So how long is the section that you tube?

It's about a mile or so. If you go straight down the river, it will take you about 25 minutes from top to bottom.

Instead of going straight down, we went down the falls, and kept climbing up and down them.

You can shuttle from bottom to top, but walking it only about 7 minutes to the top.

[Sombeech]

Click on the links below for some cool videos of us doing tricks off of the high dives at the pool.

My first flip of the day
I thought the woman in the background was kind of funny as she says "OMG!"

Dave and I doing backflips from the top

LeRoy and his wife Holly

Dave, Me, and LeRoy doing an illegal "3 at a time" from the top
Note the short whistle blow as we surface. I would also like to point out my excellent "Running Man".

Big Bad Don from the first platform

LeRoy, then Dave
Dave has the coolest trick of the day. Check it out.