Warning Sign at Hot Creek near Mammoth Lakes (California).

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Some of the hazards are:

- Scalding Water

- Broken Glass

- Arsenic in the Water

- Sporadic High Pollution

- Sudden Temperature Changes

- Unpredictable Eruptions

- Unstable Ground

I read the sign and went for a bath in that hot river, and i am still alive!

For more info about this location, go to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Creek_(Mono_County,_California).

Hot Creek is located in the "Long Valley Caldera", the mouth of an old super volcano, a region with many hot springs. For more info about this region, go to:

- volcano.oregonstate.edu/oldroot/volcanoes/volc_images/nor...

- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Valley_Caldera