Bring your own personal flotation devices, sleeping bags, sleeping pads, cooking stove, lantern, pots, pans, plates, utensils, food, toilet paper, garbage bags, fire extinguisher and fire starter. This cabin contains a wood stove. This is an area of old-growth cedar, Sitka spruce, and western hemlock rain forest. There are resident cutthroat trout in Patching and Chamberlain Lakes. There is no trail to Chamberlain Lake.
Wildlife is the area include sitka blacktail deer, black bear, beaver, and wolf.
Geese and trumpeter swans may also be seen in the area.