"Lost Cabin Creek" is in the Tobacco Root Mountains of Southwestern Montana. It is a beautiful area of ten thousand foot peaks with year-round snow fields and numerous mountain lakes.

“While camping in the area,” relates Tucker, “I decided to hike to Lost Cabin Lake (the name intrigued me) which lies at the basin at the foot of the peaks in the painting. When I got to the meadow that is the location of the painting, I went no farther. Someday I will make it to the lake.”