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TRAIL WILL BE CLOSED FROM SUNDAY, MAY 15th THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30th.
http://lasvegasweekly.com/as-we-see-it/2016/may/10/lake-mead-closes-goldstrike-canyon-arizona-hot-spr/
I've seen too many people going in with too little water. One person died later because she and her friend brought only one bottle of water and went out in extremely hot weather. If it is over 90 degrees out, do not go! This hike is not for children. Wear light clothing and bring lots of water and electrolyte packets or add table salt to your water. (Why? Because you will sweat a lot and your body will lose sodium and other electrolytes which will cause your body to not function properly. In the heat this can be especially dangerous) Remember, going in is all slightly downhill, coming out is much more difficult.
I put a 150 qt cooler 25 minutes into the trail with supplies to help people who are suffering from heat-related illness. If you go on the hike, please bring a few extra water bottles to drop into the cooler. Please don't use the supplies unless you suspect you will suffer illness before finishing your hike. Leave them for people with real emergencies. All of the electrolyte packets were gone within two days. I'm going to put salt packets in there because they cost a lot less. If you get overheated, there are spray bottles in the cooler. Take them with you and leave them at the trail head. Take off as much of your clothing as you are comfortable with and spray water on yourself. The evaporation with cool you down.
If you get into trouble, and are not too far from the Colorado river, go back to the river. You can wave down a boat for assistance. Rescue anywhere else along the trail is extremely difficult and time consuming. You can also make cell phone calls from the river. On most of the trail, you will get no signal.
Nonetheless, it is one of the most gorgeous hikes I've ever been on. Lots of hot springs, big horn, sheep, lizards, a few snakes, great rock formations, boulders, waterfalls, 150-foot long sauna-cave, the emerald green Colorado river, rope climbing, extremely high canyon walls, beauty everywhere you look and a great view of the Hoover dam bridge. If it is above 80 F, bring plenty of water -- you will need a backpack to carry your water. Bring good trail shoes and a pair of water shoes (it makes it much easier to walk through the warm streams). It will take you about an hour and a half to get all the way down to the Colorado river. When the river is high you can float in the lagoon and get hit by alternating how water from the springs and cold water from the Colorado, when it is low, you can walk left up the Colorado to the sauna cave. Nudity if common in the hot springs and occasionally with hikers.
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