u/Adventurous-Fox-8115

A friend and I are visiting for the first time and I would love some input on this abbreviated itinerary I have made! Seeking some practical advice, recommendations, and any suggestions! <3

Day one (Monday 6/22)

⁃	fly in in AM, rent car  
⁃	Rei for cooler rental/groceries in Seattle, maybe do something else too(?)  
⁃	Drive to ocean shores for hotel/dinner

Day two

⁃	Early drive to quinault, quinault loop trail  
⁃	Drive to beach 4  
⁃	Tidepooling with low tide at 1:40  
⁃	Firewood/more ice from kalaloch lodge, set up camp  
⁃	Beach walks and camping, bonfire dinner

Day three

⁃	Early AM pack up, drive to Hoh rainforest  
⁃	Hall of mosses and spruce nature trail  
⁃	Drive to Rialto beach  
⁃	Beach walk to hole in wall with low tide at 2:52  
⁃	Drive to forks and check into inn  
⁃	Get gas/ice  
⁃	Dinner in forks and activities (is there anything even open or worth seeing after 6 pm?)

Day four

⁃	Early checkout, drive to crescent lake  
⁃	Mount storm king  
⁃	Relax/lunch by lake after hike  
⁃	Drive to sol duc, set up camp  
⁃	Hike sol duc falls or do lovers lane/b loop/sol duc loop  
⁃	Sol duc hot springs  
⁃	Cold dinner at camp

Day 5

⁃	Pack up, drive to crescent lake  
⁃	Devils punchbowl   
⁃	Drive to hurricane hill  
⁃	Hurricane ridge trail and/or sunrise ridge trail  
⁃	Drive to port Angeles, freshen up at inn  
⁃	Dinner and tourist shopping 

Day 6 (Saturday)

⁃	Port Angeles farmers market  
⁃	Drive to seattle  
⁃	Return rented equipment   
⁃	Hostel check in  
⁃	Go out (recommendations within walking distance from Green tortoise hostel?)

Day 7 (Sunday)

⁃	Seattle things (recommendations pls)  
⁃	Pike place market  
⁃	Riverfront/aquarium?  
⁃	Needle/Chihuly museum?  
⁃	A farmers market?  
⁃	Evening flight home
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u/Adventurous-Fox-8115 — 7 days ago

A friend and I am flying in to Seattle in late June and plan on spending several days camping and hiking going clockwise around the park. I am planning on flying with most of our camping supplies but renting a bear can and maybe a cooler from REI and going grocery shopping before leaving Seattle. Our overnight stays, in order, are in Ocean shores, then camping at kalaloch, then a night in a forks inn, then camping at sol duc, then a night in port Angeles before returning to a Seattle hostel for our last 2 days.

So I am wondering, after seeing a post on here with people stating a cooler in a locked car is plenty safe, if I even need a bear can? On recreation.gov it says Kalaloch campground has a food locker, but Sol duc does not. If anyone has camped there before can you tell me if they actually check if you have one? I have never camped in bear country before, so I don’t know if it makes sense to have some of our food in a cooler while some is in a bear can. Just feels kind of pointless. Please give me your advice so I can plan what sort of food to buy once we get to Seattle!

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u/Adventurous-Fox-8115 — 7 days ago