Backpacking in Grand Teton

After a year of planning, my buddies and I finally went on our backpacking trip: Grand Teton National Park in WY. It felt like so long ago since we first booked the sites and applied for the permit. Who knew that trying to reserve campsites in the backcountry was such a rush! Once the website allowed us to book, most of the sites were already full. We messed up the booking originally too so we almost didn’t get the sites/permits. The National Park Service only allots a few permits at a time; so if you get one, consider yourself lucky and two, they always have more campsites than permits (which is a good…