Here the trail led along a creek and was next to a swampy area full of (I think) algae color orange due to the high content of minerals and sulfur and sulfur-dioxide.
And I noticed the water in that swamp was not coming from the creek but it bubbled up directly from below -- though it was not hot.

And so I walked into that trap when the solid looking ground of the trail turned muddy and and I sank in ankle-deep.Not only wet, but covered with orange, smelly algae.

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Its a trap

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