Westridge — Cabin return

Selected outing: Cabin return

Round trip: 7.8 km
Elevation gain: Approx. 870 m
Walking time: Unconfirmed
Difficulty: Hard

return to the named endpoint, measured from licensed source geometry; longer extensions excluded

https://hikingprincegeorge.com/hikes/westridge?route=westridge-cabin-return

Elevation along the outing

Full round trip

Start: Published hiking start · Turn around: Cabin (3.9 km) · Finish: Published hiking start (7.8 km mapped).

Approximate ground elevation from a 90 m terrain model. Distance follows the mapped itinerary and may differ from published walking distance. This is a terrain-model profile, not a surveyed measurement. Any ascent total is identified separately with its own source or estimation method.

How the route order was checked

The line ends at the mapped cabin building inside the named West Ridge Cabin Recreation Site. The further lake is not included. The independently published trailhead is within the validated start tolerance. Returning on the same approach gives this specifically scoped outing.

Copernicus GLO-90 terrain elevations via Open-Meteo (CC BY4.0); linework: Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0

Copernicus DEM 2021 GLO-90 via Open-Meteo. Linework source: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/197278150. Sampled and rounded for display.

Source: https://open-meteo.com/en/licence

Licence: CC BY4.0 elevation data; Open Database License (ODbL) 1.0 linework · https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Profile source checked: 2026-10-18

How the elevation gain was established

Outing: out-and-back outing from Published hiking start to Cabin and back; 7.76 km along the mapped itinerary

Copernicus DEM 2021 GLO-90 via Open-Meteo (90 m resolution). v7-smoothed-ascent-1: interpolate retained terrain samples at 100 m spacing; apply one triangular 1:2:1 smoothing pass over ±100 m; preserve start, finish and documented turnaround heights; sum uphill excursions with a 5 m reversal threshold; round to nearest 10 m.

Approximate terrain-model ascent, not a field or GPS measurement. Coarse cells and smoothing can miss small climbs, switchbacks, structures and sharp terrain. Processing sensitivity is not a statistical confidence interval.

Sources checked 2026-10-19.

Measurement notes

Distance is measured from the mapped source line and doubled for the retraced return; it is not a substitute for a differently scoped published outing.