We had been planning the trip of backpacking the Hoh River Trail in Olympic NP for a while. It would be a long weekend. And I don’t have classes on Friday. So for me it’s a four-day break. Since it’s gonna be a tough trip, I wish to have some rest before the classes on Tuesday. So we took off on Thursday in the afternoon after our group meeting, heading Forks. The traffic was heavy in Portland although it was not a weekend. We stopped at REI in Tualitin for last minute shopping. We got a pair of straps for fastening pads on the backpack. We spent more than an hour to get through Portland on I-5. I guess I-205 would be very much the same case.

Anyway, we finally arrived Forks at around 11:30pm and stayed in a very lovely small motel with a garden.