How cool,I was just parousing when I came across your response to Hobo Hotspring and it really brought me memories..I first visited Kern River in '68..NO DAMS!! wild and awsome how nice it was to peel the threads and slip comfortably into a deep pool of 100+ degree water born straight out of earths womb I have been to all the Kern County Springs..Demodrat...etc...maybe you remember the Bunyon Hole ? That was the personal name the Hells Angels gave to the Hobo Spring ...OH how I remember I was 13 but how is it now? I always will remember it the way it was and I only wish that every human could experience the River/Spring just as I did I am now 46 ...and you are very right not even Nostradamas could see the Ocean from Hobo...Although Jerry Garcia could...God bless you...Your certain friend Randall