[3] Project work included assessing structural conditions, which guided the use of traditional framing and carpentry techniques to conserve historically significant architectural features.

These repairs required the use of techniques such as saddle-notch log joinery (replicating the shape orientation, and tool-markings identified in the original CCC-era construction).

Owing to its isolated location within the local terrain, carpentry work utilized only traditionally appropriate hand tools, such as framing chisels, slicks, gouges, and drawknives, which were therefore packed in and out on a daily basis.

Repair materials included locally sourced Douglas fir logs and western red cedar shakes.

Field team members also generated a set of measured architectural drawings, reflecting 2011 conditions, for inclusion in the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Library of Congress.