# Long-trail record. Field meanings: docs/schema.md in this repository.

id = "circle-of-solitude"
name = "Circle of Solitude"
short_name = "CoS"
country = "US"
regions = ["CA"]
length_km = 109
length_note = "about 68 mi, per the route description; another figure on the same page gives 71.4 mi"
kind = "route"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Person-defined route (Mike White); no agency or association"
wave = 1

[source]
status = "none"
publisher = "Wilderness Press (publishes the route in the guidebook)"
url = "https://shop.adventurewithkeen.com/wilderness-press/"
format = "No line included"
crs = "EPSG:4326"
licence = "none-stated"
licence_text = "No track is included, so no source licence applies to a track. This record names the creator and the page its facts were read on (https://shop.adventurewithkeen.com/wilderness-press/, read 2026-11-10)."
attribution = "none (no line included)"
osm_only = false
mainline = "No track is included; whether the creator shares one is not settled."
source_checked = "2026-11-10"
redistributable = true
line_source = "none (no line included)"
line_file = ""
line_absent_reason = "Whether the creator shares the track is not settled: no page of the author's or the publisher's for the book was found. The route is described in the guidebook Kings Canyon National Park."

[osm]
relation = 0
note = "Not recorded: whether the creator shares the track is not settled."

[shield]
status = "no-logo-exists"
logo_source = ""
contact = "Mike White"
note = "No logo is included; a person-defined route has no emblem. Ask the creator before using any mark."
logo_file = ""
logo_owner = "Mike White"

[verification]
verified = false
note = "No line to measure."

[route]
creator = "Mike White"
line_policy = "unclear"
note = "A loop from Road's End in Kings Canyon that circles the Great Western Divide and the Kings-Kern Divide by Avalanche Pass, Colby Pass and Forester Pass. Mike White named and described it in his Wilderness Press guide; no page of the author's was found, and no statement about a track."

[[guide]]
title = "Kings Canyon National Park"
author = "Mike White"
access = "purchase"
url = "https://shop.adventurewithkeen.com/wilderness-press/"
format = "book; the publisher's Wilderness Press page, as the book's own page was not found"
publisher = "Wilderness Press"