Trail Overview

Lost Airplane Ridge is a great adventure to Cabin Lake, a high alpine bowl lake with stunning views. This is a 4wd high clearance trail with rough sections and steep water bars. The trail begins in a desert-like climate as you continue to climb up the trail to beautiful alpine meadows and then a high alpine bowl lake. Cabin lake is a designated rec site with 3 campsites. If you are up to a hiking adventure, Stoyoma Plane Crash site is a 4 hr round-trip hike with geocaching sites along the way. From the Cabin Lake campsite, there is no need for the hard scramble over the mountain. Follow the trail from the far end of the lake to the crash site.

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Difficulty

4WD high clearance is highly recommended, rough sections of trail and steep water bars

History

Known local First Nations' cultural sites are occasionally used for small First Nations gatherings.

Technical Rating

Eric E

Aug 31, 2025

Open

Good day on trail, it was dusty and hot, there were two washout that we were able to traverse, just had to take it slow and warch our lines. Further up the trail it does get tight, we did take some new pinstripes

Cole kobelt

Jul 04, 2025

Open

2 washouts still, overgrowth is pretty minor but enough to leave some good pin-striping

Austin Brown

May 24, 2025

Open

2 big washout. There are roads through it but youll need a high clearance 4x4. Once you get to the switchbacks, maybe 8km from the lake it is gets very overgrown, we pushed through and destroyed our paint only to find out 2km from the lake there was still 3feet of snow. Earliest time to go would be late June

Mike Tishken

Aug 24, 2024

Open

2 major waahouts of the trail, first washout has a tight tree on the by pass, 2nd one is the larger washout steep in steep out very slick in the rain

John C

Oct 14, 2023

Open