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I walk a short distance up the stream below Hatch Spring to look for the best place to filter some water

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00152-hatch-spring-ferns-80.jpg After a half-mile in the lower part of Red Creek Road, I pull over when I reach Hatch Spring and go for a short walkThumbnailsThe stream coming down from Hatch Spring is small, but cleanAfter a half-mile in the lower part of Red Creek Road, I pull over when I reach Hatch Spring and go for a short walkThumbnailsThe stream coming down from Hatch Spring is small, but cleanAfter a half-mile in the lower part of Red Creek Road, I pull over when I reach Hatch Spring and go for a short walkThumbnailsThe stream coming down from Hatch Spring is small, but cleanAfter a half-mile in the lower part of Red Creek Road, I pull over when I reach Hatch Spring and go for a short walkThumbnailsThe stream coming down from Hatch Spring is small, but cleanAfter a half-mile in the lower part of Red Creek Road, I pull over when I reach Hatch Spring and go for a short walkThumbnailsThe stream coming down from Hatch Spring is small, but clean

It's amazing to find ferns, humidity-loving plants, in this moist corner of an otherwise unforgivingly hot and dry landscape.

I've already drank five of the six litres of water that I brought with me from Paradise Lake, and I could have drank more.