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Erik The Red Trail, North Vancouver

Date: December 27, 2025 Location: Grouse Mountain area, North Vancouver Stats: 14.89 kilometers car-to-car; 1183 meters elevation gain Erik The Red Trail is our favorite trail in winter time for a hike when weather is not good. This is a challenging winter adventure featuring significant trail-breaking and off trail navigation in deep snow. Depending on the weather and time you go for this route in snow conditions, often you need to bring ice axes, crampons as well as snowshoes. To bypass blocked ski runs on Grouse Mountain, we began at Skyline Drive. We followed BP Trail briefly before turning left onto Dreamweaver Trail for a steep grind upward. We soon diverted onto a faint, unnamed route, frequently losing and regaining the track. Roughly an hour in, we reached Mountain Highway and transitioned to snowshoes. We snowshoed for several kilometers along the road to Pipeline Pass, the official start of Erik The Red Trail. After a short break, we began the core challenge. The boulder field was snow-filled and navigable, but crossing the snow-obscured creek over large rocks required careful footing. The trail itself was buried under deep, unconsolidated snow, making trail-breaking arduous. Frequent GPS checks were necessary to stay on route. Four hours after starting, we reached Thunderbird Ridge, joining several other hikers enjoying our lunch in the freezing weather. For our return, we took the regular trail down to Grouse Mountain gondola area, then hiked down to the Skyline Trail, which we followed back to our starting point at Skyline Drive.