We woke early in the morning, quickly packed up, and drove towards the Grand Teton National Park visitor center to scure a camping permit for the night.
We were able to secure a camping permit, but, unfortunately, the Holly Lake and Upper Paintbrush Canyon camping zones were full, so we settled for the Lower Paintbrush Canyon camping zone. A bear box was included with the permit, which was very nice because none of us has one.
After an excellent breakfast in Jackson at the Bunnery, Steve and I stopped at the Albertson's just outside of town to get some final supplies. There we met up with Bob and headed back toward Grand Teton National Park.
At the visitor's center, we split up the supplies and re-packed our packs. Bob parked his car across the street from the visitor's center so we could take one car into the park. We parked at the overflow parking lot near the String Lake Trailhead, walked towards Leigh Lake, and up into Paintbrush Canyon.
Less than three hours after we started, we arrived at the furthest campsites in the Lower Paintbrush camping zone. It wasn't even 3:00 PM. We filled the time by setting up camping, playing frisbee on the mountainside (not ideal), cooking dinner, walking back down the trail a bit, and just relaxing. We went to sleep before it even got dark because we basically ran out of things to occupy the time.