RMNP Pre-plan

This weekend, we are headed out to Rocky Mountain National Park. By my reckoning, everything is perfectly planned.

I phoned the backcountry office several weeks ago to reserve our site for Saturday night. Then I reserved our site for Friday on recreation.gov. We have our topo map, the Saturday night supper is composed. All that remains is to pack up the car (and backpacks) and bolt out to the campground after Mr. Prairie gets home from work on Friday.

Our hiking plan for Saturday looks something like this:

The teeny tiny portion of the park we will be viewing.

Get up super early, pick up our permit from the office at 8, get to the trailhead before 9 am. Hike to the Sky Pond (which, if we are to trust google, may look something like this) eat lunch, retrace our steps a bit (well, quite a bit actually, but only my third choice site is available) set up camp, and enjoy a nice snooze.

Of course, when a plan is very specific, sometimes unexpected situations arise. I'll advise you of any such surprises upon our return.

--- Oct 10 --- editing to add: we were so efficient with this plan that we arrived at our campsite 3 hours ahead of schedule and didn't know what to do with the extra time.