Hello NN :-) Are you back in the Las Vegas area? I thought you were headed to Texas after Korea. Thanks for that guided tour of AZ Hotsprings a few years ago. My wife and I went up there about a month ago. I found a way around that waterfall on the back trail. You may have gone this alternate route at some point. We did stop at the turnout for the " short trail " to Goldstrike Hotsprings and saw the major HWY construction going on there. I could see the trail off beyond the new HWY heading for Goldstrike canyon. Thats to bad the new road is cutting off that access , I liked that trail. It seems that when the work is done, there will be no way to use that route to GSHS.