I don't know if this is possible but I have a day permit reserved for Monday Aug 19th and I have a couple friends with permits on Wednesday Aug 21st. Ideally I would like to hike with them and I am wondering if it is possible to trade or if my best bet is to try for the day of lottery. Thanks in advance Jeff
you should be fine. we arrived at the visitor center at 7:45am on Saturday the 17th. at 8am there was a lottery to see what order we would be helped. our group was #8 out of 10 groups. we were still able to get 3 day hike permits and were out of the visitor center by 8:15am.