This is an easy to moderate trail and I enjoyed sharing it with so many others – families with young children, babies carried by his/her parents and visitors from other countries The trail is named after Mr. Bumpass, an early settler who, in 1865, stepped in the wrong place and broke through the surface of a scalding hot mudpot and, subsequently, last his leg. I tried to post a video of such a mudpot but ran into problems so instead posted a picture. This and the other eruptions are caused by super-heated water under the surface that emerges with water boiling beneath the surface, producing vapor which exits the surface as steam. This was a hike well worth it! Again, it is hard to believe we are sitting on a volcano!
“Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whiling and flowing … out of one beautiful form into another.” John Muir, 1899
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