Double Hot Spring

Double Hot Spring is locate to the west of the Black Rock Range and north of Black Rock Spring.

In 2000, Lisa O'Shea died a few weeks after she jumped in to Double Hot to save two dogs. Andy Crowell survived, though he had second and third-degree burns over 80 % of his body.

O'Shea's mother sued the BLM for wrongful death for $15 million and eventually settled for $1 million.

Crowell sued for $25.5 million.

External Resources

• Gary Andrew Poole, "JOURNEYS; Drawing a Hot Bath From the Center of the Earth,", NY Times, November 01, 2002.

• Jeffrey Mullins, "BLM settles death lawsuit for $1 million," Elko Daily Free Press.

• sonusexmachina's phots 2012-07-06

• soak.net Nevada 1095044346 Sept. 2004

• nbmg.unr.edu/geothermal

• http://www.indiancanyon.org/places/places1.html

• google map
• yahoo map
• terraserver
• http://www.allaroundnevada.com/?p=1151

• Richard K. Hose, Bruce E. Taylor, "Geothermal Systems of Northern Nevada," USGS Open File Report 1974, 74-271.