From that bottom pic I assume these are overnight backpacking trips? How long do you plan to stay out?

and we'll hike about 25 miles. There's only three spots to re-fill the water bottles so we have to make sure we find them all. I think we carried 45-lb packs on the hike when I took these pics. My other concern is the night-time temps. It's gonna be cold out there at night in late March.

but never anything where the next water wasn't absolutely findable - sounds challenging...

Hope you'll give us some pictures from this trip!

and probably won't be too hard to locate. Last time I did the hike, years ago, we found 2 of the 3 easily. The 3rd one was a small pool with just a few inches of water, and it took us a while to find it because it was off the main trail and there were a bunch of secondary trails we had to explore before we got the right one.

I'll be sure to post pictures when I get back. The hike goes by A LOT of ruins, including a kiva hikers are allowed to climb down into that we bypassed when we there before.