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It was roughly a 5 hour drive from Ten Sleep to my next ride south, so I spent the day being a tourist. Drove to Thermopolis and soaked in their beautiful, free public hot springs. No one was in the indoor or outdoor pools when I first got there.
From there, a scenic drive through Wind River Canyon to Shoshoni. A guy I talked to before doing this drive said, "Yeah, you can't tell whether you're going uphill or downhill in that canyon." He was right. I thought the river was flowing one way until I reached the south end of the canyon and could then see from the rapids it was flowing the other. Weird.
Before camping at the free city campground in Lander, WY, I visited nearby Sinks Canyon. The Middle Popo Agie River disappears underground there and surfaces 1/4 mile away down the mountain. Pretty mysterious. Some time in the past no one was sure if that's where the river resurfaces. So they put dye in the water, and 2 hours later it appeared at the pool 1/4 mile away. The mystery is, where's the water going for 2 hours before it reappears? The pool where it did had many, giant trout swimming around in it.
The indoor and outdoor pools at Thermopolis hot springs:
Nice walk around Thermopolis hot springs:
Where the Middle Popo Agie River disappears underground at Sinks Canyon:
The trout pond where the Popo Agie River resurfaces at Sinks Canyon. These were huge trout.