Game plan is to do Lost Mines out and back then start Pinnacles. I guess if the lot is full we can do some of the window trail. I saw the notices on road closures for Chisos Basin Rd, but it looks like that was supposed to be wrapped up end of January so hopefully not an issue end of this month, but I'll keep an eye on it.
I tried to snag ER4, but ER4-ER9 are closed due to the falcon mating season during this time so we wont be able to explore as much of the ER Trail as I'd like, but we will hike it as far as we can after setting up camp at ER2 then we can decide if we want to hike South Rim on day 2 and come back with our packs on day 3 on the way to Laguna Meadows or if we want to go Juniper Canyon and save South Rim for Day 3. Being that we are bringing in so much water I tried to plan as much as I could without our packs on
I really appreciate the advice keep it coming if y'all think of anything else.
I know everyone says 1 gallon of water per day for drinking plus whatever we need for cooking, that would be around 30lbs of water which sounds miserable to carry. I'm thinking since it will be cold out and I typically don't consume that much water to carry closer to 24lbs which will be a little under 3 gallons total. Any thoughts with that game plan?