17,698 hours | 2024 in Review

17,698 hours. Now that’s a gift worth celebrating….

The best gift humans give is the one offered daily, whether we know it or not.

The gift of how we show up in the world. To our families, our friends, our communities, and, even to our co-workers & customers.

Today, as we round the last week of the year, we’re feeling pretty grateful for the team of hot spring hustlers who gift this land and your experience the best of who they are each & every day.

17,698 hours we’ve collectively put in this year to be exact. Hours of dedication, creativity, heart, blood, sweat & soggy tears.

Last week, we gathered as a team for our most important ritual. The one that keeps us focussed on who we are, what we serve, and how we show up.

The ritual of simply being a guest. We tried out our soon-to-launch breakfast baked goods from @le_croissant_co , we enjoyed our new smoothies at the pool, @emmajoanartist & @chad_artist14 led us in an aquatic yoga flow and meditation.

We river dipped, we rested, we visioned, and we grounded.

We inched one step closer to mastering the art of pizza thanks to dreamy @pizzanono dough and a lot of laughs, trials, & errors.

And we sweat it out in solidarity in your new river sauna to refine the ritualistic circuit of sweat, breath, plunging, and connection.

Toss in some classic Preston Bowling and a night cap at the Owl Club and you’ve got yourself a whirlwind of gratitude worth sharing.

Through it all, we cemented in our commitment to thread a needle that feels precarious yet sacred - to grow this community and mission WITHOUT changing what we all love.

That complex dance of equal parts ritual and revolution is only possible because, at the beginning, middle, and end of the day, WE ARE OUR OWN MOST RABID GUESTS going to unusual lengths to preserve a place we all love.

Merry Christmas fellow guests, what a gift it is to show up for this land, for you, and for ourselves.

Everybody gives. Everybody receives. Nobody takes.