My son, Derek, and I set out for Johns Brook Lodge in hopes of spending the night in a lean-to but prepared to use our tents. We met several people coming out from having a few night's stays. We arrived at JBL around 5 pm, and soon went to see the caretaker and get a lean-to because our friends Mark, Chris, and Justin were going to come in later that night and the next day, our luck there were some available.
We stayed in the Goodwin lean-to, which was in an awesome spot, we placed a glow stick on a branch by the trail leading down to the lean-to so Mark and Chris could find it, it would be about 9:30 pm when they arrived, and Justin was to hike in the next morning.
The lean-to was awesome with the brook roaring by we heard nothing all night, in fact, it was almost 9:30 or 10 am by the time we woke up, we overslept. Our plan was to do both Wolf jaws that day, but now it did not look so good. We left for Lower Wolf jaw at 11:40 am from the Goodwin lean-to, it was a misty day, the whole day was like being in the clouds, no views and a constant drizzle all day, it made for some cool hiking, but no views at all. We arrived at the Wolf jaw lean-to at 12:40 pm, and this is where we had our lunch. This looked like a nice lean-to, I would like to stay at this lean-to when we go back to do Upper Wolf Jaw, Armstrong, and Gothics. We arrived at the junction to both Wolfjaws at 1:42 pm; we had met a hiker coming down just before this junction and asked him about the time frame for both Lower and Upper Wolf jaws. He said he did not think we had enough time to do both, especially within the daylight. We had headlamps and were prepared to walk out in the dark, but prefer not to do this. We opted to only do the one, so we picked Lower Wolfjaw. We climbed our way and arrived at the Lower Wolf jaw summit at 2:40 pm, not a view insight, we were socked into the clouds but took what pictures we could, had a snack, and packed up to head back.
We arrived back at Goodwin lean-to at 5 pm, our guest met us there and we all hiked out together arriving at the Garden at 7:30 pm.
