  We study aspects of black holes near the Hagedorn temperature. The large
dimension expansion introduced by Soda, Emparan, Grumiller and Tanabe connects
them to the well studied two dimensional black hole based on $SL(2)_k/U(1)$.
This allows us to explore black holes at string scale temperatures. We argue
that the black hole can surpass the Hagedorn temperature, but at a somewhat
larger temperature it is likely to turn over to a highly excited string.
