The Cabin

The Rocky Mountaineers maintain a small unimproved cabin on "Little St. Joe" 
a point to the east of St. Joseph's Peak in the Bitterroot Mountains. It was 
built of logs in the 1970's by club members Bob Benson and Bill Morgan, to 
replace a cabin across the Bass Creek drainage at Lappi Lake that was in the 
Selway Bitterroot Wilderness area. Club members hauled a wood stove up, quite 
a task considering the cabin is not accessible from any roads or by snowmobile.
Unimproved means that the cabin has some unchinked walls, a minimally 
sheltered pit toilet and no water. Nor is there a source of water close to 
the cabin which is generally not a problem as the lease we have with the Forest 
Services specifies winter use only. That is: when there is snow on the 
ground.  The trail to the cabin is not distinguishable or signed where it 
leaves the main St. Joseph's Peak trail, but many locals know how to find it 
and use it frequently, mostly to back country ski or snowshoe in the area. 
A link to a map with GPS coordinates is given below.

The cabin is entered by a trap door from beneath the where fire wood is also 
stored. Club Members do a yearly work day to cut wood and do maintenance. The 
cabin can sleep six people comfortably on platform beds. A few pots and pans and 
some games are stored there.  Use of the cabin is free and open to the public, and 
donation envelopes are available to help with the cost of maintaining the cabin.

Pictures of cabin.

Map of route to cabin with GPS coordinates.

Special Use Permit. (Winter use only.)