Weigh your pack, fill your water containers with clean water, take a load off your feet for a few minutes, even if you are not a registered guest. If you are hiking during your stay, a trail lunch will be packed for you. Only lodge patrons can eat at the lodge. Short Job Lookout 0.74 mi. Phelps Trail above JBL nearing Bushnell Falls Phelps Trail departs JBL from the signpost in the preceding photo, following Johns Brook closely along its north bank.
Markers are yellow.
It is a narrow well-worn, easily traversed trail posing no particular difficulties except a few very short detours around uprooted trees and other damage, possibly from Hurricane Floyd. At this particular time the trail was very wet and sloppy due to the incessant rains. Fortunately, on this day the rains took a breather. We stay on Phelps but marker color changes to red . This photo, however, is from 14 years before this hike.