Hi Mel,
I'm not sure what you mean by not being "wild camping" in the Brit sense.
What does it take to post photos here? I don't use something like PhotoBucket.
We did "backpacking" in the American sense of the term.
We carried all supplies in our backpacks, cooked our meals twice daily, tent camped (yes, in designated campsites) and followed a trail.
No huts.
No bothies or shelters.
Designated campsites and permits for a park that sees literally over a million hikers per year are a necessity.
So does the fact that we were required to stay in designated campsites and required to have camping permits disqualify this from being backpacking in your definition? Perhaps "what we have here is a failure to communicate." (Cool Hand Luke)
Eric B.