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

id = "sierra-grand-traverse"
name = "Sierra Grand Traverse"
short_name = "SGT"
country = "US"
regions = ["CA"]
length_km = 322
length_note = "200 mi and 41 passes, per the guidebook's description in the article"
kind = "route"
tier = "regional"
designation = "Person-defined route (John and Monica Chapman, 2023); no agency or association"
wave = 1

[source]
status = "none"
publisher = "John and Monica Chapman (publishes the route)"
publisher_url = "https://www.john.chapman.name/pub-sierra.html"
url = "https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/sierra-grand-traverse-an-epic-route-across-the-range-of-light"
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://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/sierra-grand-traverse-an-epic-route-across-the-range-of-light, read 2026-11-10)."
attribution = "none (no line included)"
osm_only = false
mainline = "No track is included; the track is the book's maps."
source_checked = "2026-11-10"
redistributable = true
line_source = "none (no line included)"
line_file = ""
line_absent_reason = "The route is sold as a guidebook whose maps and elevation profiles are the track, and no GPX is published. Get the track from Sierra Grand Traverse."

[osm]
relation = 0
note = "Not recorded: the route's creator does not publish a track."

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

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

[route]
creator = "John and Monica Chapman"
year = 2023
line_policy = "sold"
creator_words = "Our hope is to inspire people who do track walking to get off the track and explore more of the wilderness."
creator_words_url = "https://www.insidehook.com/travel/sierra-grand-traverse-new-hiking-trail-california"
creator_words_by = "John Chapman"
note = "From Tuolumne Meadows to Horseshoe Meadows, mostly off the Pacific Crest Trail, over 41 passes. The authors set out in 2019 and took three years of research; the book was published on 15 March 2023 and its maps and elevation profiles are the track."

[[guide]]
title = "Sierra Grand Traverse: An Epic Route Across the Range of Light"
author = "John and Monica Chapman"
access = "purchase"
url = "https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/sierra-grand-traverse-an-epic-route-across-the-range-of-light"
format = "book with topographic maps and elevation profiles"
price = "$24.95"
price_checked = "2026-11-10"
publisher = "Mountaineers Books"
isbn = "978-1-68051-618-0"