Twin (Vya) Spring
Drag the handle to compare the two views. The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
Twin Spring, also recorded as Vya Spring, is a barely warm source in Modoc County, with Alturas about thirty-eight miles away. The water is well below body heat, so soaking is off the table. Owner, access status, chemistry, photograph: all four are missing from the file. The record is thin, and what it does hold is mostly climate.
The road, unnamed in the record, stops about five hundred feet short of the spring. Elevation is around fifty-six hundred feet, high country, and winters drop close to five feet of snow. Annual precipitation is moderate. Divine Springs Campground is listed about seventeen miles off. Nothing describes the spring itself, so expect to find out what it looks like when you get there.
The flagged months are the winter ones, which is odd for water this cool. Short walk in. Nobody is on record as owner, so watch for signs. Camping: Divine Springs, the one listing, seventeen miles out. Expect snow on the ground in the recommended season, and a long drive from Alturas.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Twin (Vya) Spring.
- Setting
- Gentle slope
- The ground tilts gently up to the west.
- Highest ground nearby
- 179 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the west
A slice through the ground from west to east, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
That's about 1½ times the US average of 65. It's higher than at 24% of the springs on this site.
Heat flow measures the warmth working its way up through the ground from deep inside the earth. Where it runs high, rain and snowmelt that seep down through cracks in the rock come back up hot.
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Heat flow estimate: Stanford Thermal Earth Model (Aljubran & Horne, 2024), CC BY 4.0.
Divine springs campground has 5 metal fire ring/bbq pits and tables. A small stream runs through the site, and is fenced off from livestock.
Twin (Vya) Spring sits at 5,580 feet above sea level, way above the mile-high mark. You may not feel the altitude strongly, but hot water still dehydrates you faster at elevation. UV is about 22% stronger than at sea level, so bring sunscreen and drink more water than you normally would.
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