Thanks for writing a report! I'm glad you had a great first visit. I'll never forget mine some years ago. (I've written about it here some time ago.) I went last week on a bad day for nude use, and that always throws me. Good to see in trip reports since that it seems to have been an aberration. On water: My pack is heavy on the way down because in addition to a beer or two that I usually pack in, I bring no less than 3 1.5 liter bottles and one or two smaller 1 liter bottles. I drink water throughout the day, especially if I'm hot springing, and having one of the small 1 liter bottles in my hand on the way down, and one for the way up, by the time I drink the 3 1.5 liters I know it is about time to leave. It seems like a lot of water but it is a minimum I think in the summer out there.
I always make sure that I have a lot of water in my car too for when I get back to it.