Pybus Bay Cabin

Pybus Cabin is a remote wilderness cabin on the southeast side of Admiralty Island in the Tongass National Forest, a scenic setting for fishing, boating and wildlife viewing. Access is by float plane or boat. Wildlife viewing is abundant on land and in the water. Pybus Bay is quite remote, and a good place for humpback whale sightings. A game trail to Donkey Bay is accessible at high tide, and seasonal commercial fishing activity is popular in Pybus Bay. The cabin is a primitive, pre-cut cedar log cabin in A-frame style, furnished with wooden bunkbeds without mattresses and a loft that sleep up to seven guests. It is equipped with a table, benches, an oil stove for heat and an outdoor toilet. There is no running water and no electricity. Bring food, water, sleeping bags and pads, a cook stove, matches, cooking gear and utensils, a light source, No. 1 stove oil, toilet paper, a first aid kit and garbage bags. Water is available from a nearby stream; water from any natural site must be filtered, boiled or chemically treated before drinking. The cabin sits about a half-mile north of Donkey Bay in a protected cove within Pybus Bay. The shoreline is surrounded by a thick temperate rainforest of old-growth spruce and hemlock trees, ferns, shrubs and grasses, and the end of the bay has large tidal flats. Wildlife in the area abounds, including migratory waterfowl and shorebirds, Sitka black-tailed deer and brown bears.