Simone still stalking Boulder Hot Springs

The view is breathtaking, the building complex is massive, the plunges are set at 109 or so (the pool maybe not so much); and, hipneck is not the only curio walking the grounds. hipneck is the skilled caretaker who trained ip on the mechanical systems at Boulder Hot Springs, part of the more than one million dollar improvements to the heating system that utilizes the 174 degree discharge from a geothermal source under Bull Mountain. He and others are rebuilding the greenhouse to grow the retreat's organic food.

The pipes to the radiators used to converge in a clawfoot bathtub in a basement straight out of The Silence of the Lambs where the homemade plenum acted as a manifold to heat the former hotel.

From the Helena Independent Record:

It’s said that a prostitute was murdered in the old office area — stabbed by a mining executive from Butte — and that she haunts the halls. Although few have seen this so-called “lady of the night,” she’s become quite well known. Simone’s Suite is located on the first floor. It has two beds, four tall windows and a big boudoir bathroom.

And, while this blogger has never seen Simone, there are places in the not yet restored parts of the west wing that give me the willyboogers just thinking about it.

By my reckoning, this IR photo was taken from the outside pool area, west wing to the left