Great time at the lodge. Definitely a tough snowmobile trip as the trail hadn’t need groomed. This would be a five star review if the forest service would stock firewood. Wood is the sole heat for the cabin and it’s never stocked anymore so we spent the first day having to fall trees and split wood. Every year the forest service crews are cutting and clearing up near the cabin and I can’t understand why they don’t just drag it to the cabin instead of burning it to clear it.

The best!

The best!

Beautiful cabin and surrounding area.

Beautiful cabin and surrounding area.

Beautiful cabin and surrounding area.

Beautiful cabin and surrounding area.

Beautiful experience, more than we expected.

Beautiful experience, more than we expected.

Gorgeous place to stay. The view out the big large picture windows is breathtaking. We set a scope up to look for wildlife up on the high bench to the southeast. The showers were on for part of our visit, before they were turned off for the winter - nice to have a hot shower after days spent hiking. The wood stove works great. Never started the fireplace. Gas stove has an automatic pilot; you just turn the knob and the burner fires up. Bring along some mouse traps. We caught several mice, but none the last two days of our 7 day stay, so must have gotten them all. What we enjoyed the most was kayaking on the lake, and were very glad we brought the inflatable kayaks along. Highly recommend the hike up Clear Creek Valley, although there were reports of grizzly on hunter elk kills while we were there, which made my partner nervous. The only downside is the fishing in the lake and the river was not good during our stay.