Salton Sea

[mudxdresser]

So the mud is hot? Wow, that's new info! Previous reports and my own experience with the mud volcanoes to the west of the Salton Sea is that the mud is sort of cool in temperature. However, you can work with that if you have something to dig with. Just dig a little basin out and then break down the side of the volcano a little and let it fill the basin. The mud will cool to a nice temperature quickly. I've used this technique down with the mud volcanoes down in Mexico below Mexicali in the Baja.

[Boggy Man]

Here is another thread regarding the mud volcanoes in the area, one of which jungleQSman tried out, and didn't have any problems with it being too hot:

viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3075

[sirnetwork]

(Posting this in 2 Salton Sea threads)

According to a 2008 study (linked below), the eastern Salton Sea area has 2 different types of mud gryphons/volcanoes: ones that are solely carbon dioxide bubbling up, and the warm/hot spring-fed ones. The Davis/Schrimpf field is one that is listed as "hot". No mention is made of the ones on the western shore.

https://profile.usgs.gov/myscience/uplo ... nal_sm.pdf

[mudxdresser]

Thanks for the info! Have to put that place back on my to do list! The mudpots I visited on the west side of the Salton Sea were definitely CO2 gas and were cool in temperature. The ones to the east must be far enough over to be on the fault line that produces the hot ones down near Cuero Puerto below Mexicali.

This raises a question based on my experience with the ones just below there in the Baja, is the mud sulphurous smelling? I got in the ones in the Baja and it took nearly a week to get the smell off.

[index]

Interesting... so it is possible I was in the wrong place. I was working off the google maps we've created as a group, could someone post the location of the ones on the western shore as I was at the ones on he east....

[mrcactus747]

Question - I thought most mud volcanoes are 99 percent hot which is unsafe to get in it... Im in ohio but i know Ohio may not have it, but if I travel, I'd like to try to sink in a safe volcanoes, mostly up to my chest. Please advise. Thanks!

[Jon Smith]

Those mud volcanoes are not thick enough for my interest.