As a walk-in with a plan rather than a backpacker with a reservation, I had counted on the wildfires and the day being Tuesday right after Labor Day to keep the crowds away. Nope. This is the Pacific Northwest, and people go out into the backcountry in every kind of conditions imaginable. Nevertheless the Rangers helped me craft a plan to get me around the mountain from Longmire. As I don’t have a car, I didn’t set up any caches. Carried everything I needed in a bearcan. Other than the bearcan I traveled as an ultralight backpacker.