On the path to the hot springs
at Serpentine Tor,
past silent guardians
waking from ancient slumber,
Caribou antlers, musk ox skulls
and other bones were left for the living.
Wild flowers abounded,
fed by rains of midsummer,
Red-tailed hawks nesting in crevices of rock.
Heat from the Earth contrasted strikingly
with the scenic valley where chimney rock formations (tors)
rose 100 feet.
Imagine a place of ancestral beauty and larger-than-life landscapes: ancestral home to ice-age giants and turbulant volcanic activity. Alaskan natives visited the hot springs for thousands of years, the tor monoliths formed by magma.
Hot springs used for cooking, for healing and spiritual purposes.
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