A group of friends gathered to enjoy unseasonably warm weather and naturally warm water in a hot springs on the edge of Thermopolis. On Saturday, Feb. 19, at dusk, the mineral blue water of the spring contrasted with the red rock bluffs that surround this central Wyoming town.

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