Ooh! Where you backpacking? Back when I lived up there I tried to go every weekend.
We're shooting for the 7 lakes /hoh river area, but I messed up and got didn't get the permit fax (because it's still 1998 in backwoods Washington) in on time. It's 50% pre reserved, 50% first come first serve, so we're leaving first thing in the morning from olympia to try and get one. If that doesn't work we'll just bum around a bit and hike and sleep where we can.
Oh lovely. You cannot go wrong if you're up in there. I'm real fond of basing myself out of Moclips and just heading wherever. One time I was burning through so much film I restricted myself to only shooting waterfalls. I think I still cooked off eight rolls.
I'm actually really looking forward to it now that we don't have the permits. My fiance is a planner, through and through, I like my adventures to be a bit more... spontaneous. I'm hoping we get a chance to do something we never planned and get lost for a little while.