It is a very congenial, welcoming place to stay. Note that it is very rustic. All food is brought in on the backs of the hut crew, lighting is by gas lantern, no showers are available, but you can wash up in an industrial sink. Privacy is limited. The food is good and ample, although a number of the ingredients are, by necessity, dehydrated or powdered.
Toilets are chemical and are indoors, but separated by several doors from the bunk room.
Nevertheless, there is a bit of a smell in one of the bunkrooms, but this will be corrected for 2001, I am told, following some upgrades. JBL has two bunk rooms. Each has about a dozen bunk beds. It also has two small rooms for 4 persons each, also in a bunk arrangement. The porch at JBL is very inviting and dozens of hikers come through daily due to the lodge being at the conjunction of many trails.