This is an amazing park. Very touristy, and taking after my dad I get very angry around a lot of tourists, but the park has a very good back counrty set up. There is a long road that only the park buses can drive on, and 85% of the people see the park through a bus window. Cool, but not my style. To back country camp you meet with a ranger, and they make shur you're not a complete idiot that might try and feed wild life, or store food in your tent. Then they show you a topographical map, that is sectioned off into huge quadrents. You tell them roughly where you want to go, and as long as no one else is in that section of the park you're good to go. You jump on a camper bus it takes you into the mountains, anywhere between 3 and 6 hours. Once you're dropped off you are on your own. To get out you just hike back to the road and thumb a bus down. I picked a spot where we hiked 15km along a river to a glacier which fed it. We then took a day and expoled the glacier. It is very cool, but an erie, and unsettling place. Luckily I laugh in the face of danger. This was an amazing place, and I must come back to explore more of it.
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