Hi, I'm Daniel in the backcountry Ranger Mount Rainier National Park and I wanted to share a little information with you about the process of attempting to get walk-up permits this summer here at Mount Rainier. So the first thing you really need to do is start your work at home. It's best to come into the Ranger Station with your ideal itinerary written out on paper. Works better that way because if you wait until you come into the Ranger Station there's a lot more pressure, it's a lot more hectic and at home it allows you to take the time to actually think about what it is that you want to do. The things that will really help you in the end is flexibility. You'll need to let the Ranger know whether or not you'll consider hiking the trip in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction, whether you'll consider starting at different locations if necessary. For example, the Ranger might tell you that this won't work if you start it long-mire, but if you start it quite river this will work. The other thing is you need to consider the possibility of having alternate camps because not every camp will be available necessarily for your trip. These are the kind of things that will really make your attempts to get a permit more successful this summer. Having said that in the end we may not be able to book your dream trip. It might be that there's even not the complete trip and maybe a partial trip. If that's the case you need to decide really now whether or not you can live with that. In most cases though we are able to get something to work out for everyone who comes in to get a permit. Thanks for your time and have a great visit here at Myron here this summer.