I'm going up towards the Terwilliger
Hot Springs at Cougar Reservoir, and it looks very different—all
very open—I'm walking through the dry lakebed of the lake below. I
walk straight up to it and all the trees are cut down and there's a
paved, cemented over area—I think it's cemented over, but there's
still hot springs, close up. The rest is presented like a news story:
Some people started bringing snakes in the hot springs, some of which
thrived and reproduced. Many of the snakes were poisonous and bit
people. Three people died. But many of the regulars became immune to
the snake poison and were bit regularly. The government tried to get
rid of the snakes, but they were protected under the Freedom of
Religion Act, as the regulars had made it into a religion. Looks like
I wasn't going in the hot springs anymore!
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