Help! Where should I hike in late October?

So many good ideas....

Thanks tons to all, and I would appreciate the continued suggestions, for my own selfish reasons (the more ideas the better, for future considerations).

In a few minutes the Grand Canyon rangers will be phoning me back to tell me my options.


In the meantime, do I have any takers? I am looking for a potential hiking buddy (no broke back mountain) for around Oct17-25th roughly (5 days in that time frame). At this moment, if the rangers say its a good plan, I intend to do the royal arch loop as mentioned above. So, its not an easy hike by any means. There is a stretch of potentially two days without water right at the beginning. So, packweights would start off being 25lbs water plus food and equipment. I intend on doing this myself, but if someone wants to join me (and you got to think you are capable of it, this trail has killed people) let me know. We will smoke big stogies at all the major landscape spectacles!

Cheers

John