Upper Fraser & Sugarbowl / Elevation sheet
Red Mountain Cabin
- Round trip
- 25 km
- Elevation gain
- 900 m Published route measurement
- Walking time
- ~3 to 6 hours to cabin depending on pace, trail conditions and where you start from.
- Difficulty
- Hard There and Back
return from Penny post office; shorter unofficial FSR start gives about 17 km return
Elevation along the outing
Full round trip
Start: Penny village trailhead; mapped Red Mountain Road entrance nearby · Turn around: Red Mountain Cabin (12.0 km) · Finish: Penny village trailhead; mapped Red Mountain Road entrance nearby (24.0 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 cabin steward publishes approximate Penny trailhead and cabin coordinates. The old retained footpath omitted the short village approach. Fresh OSM data identify a named Red Mountain Road segment whose last vertex exactly equals the trail start; the full road segment is prepended. Its village endpoint is about 31 m from the steward trailhead coordinate, while the retained cabin endpoint is about 13 m from the steward cabin coordinate. This gives the full village-start outing and retraced return. The mapped total is about 24 km and is kept distinct from the published 25 km estimate. It is not the shorter forest-road access option. The source coordinates do not certify exact parking or current village access.
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/773730926. 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
Measurement notes
12.5 km to cabin from the post office at Penny. ~8.5 km to the cabin from Fraser Flats FSR.
900 m
Source comparison: Penny post-office approach; 12.5 km; to cabin scope. This is another description of the main outing, a duplicate endpoint, an unscoped source claim, or a related facility.
Source comparison: Fraser Flats approach; 8.5 km; to cabin scope. This is another description of the main outing, a duplicate endpoint, an unscoped source claim, or a related facility.
Source comparison: Penny post office to cabin; 25 km; 900 m ascent; 3–6 hours one way depending on start and pace duration; return; 12.5 km one way scope. This is another description of the main outing, a duplicate endpoint, an unscoped source claim, or a related facility.