Hi all,

Can you recommend a website where I can put in a route and get an elevation profile?

I found one such site a couple of weeks ago, but I had to trace the trail on the map with my mouse, and then it gave me an image small enough to fit on a postage stamp.



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I use a site called Plot A Route when looking at routes to take our Boy Scout Troop on.

https://www.plotaroute.com/

When putting a route in select the paths option and it makes marking the path easier since it shows known trails.

Chris

CalTopo is a good one.

Thanks! I hadn't seen either of these sites before.

I really like CalTopo, but I've found two bugs in the trail data just along the Merced River. There's a "low" trail at the bottom of the valley and a "high" trail on the south-facing slope. About a five-mile chunk of the "high" trail around Washburn Lake is missing. And the "low" trail is frustratingly discontinuous at the bridge over the Merced Peak Fork. (They appear to use OpenStreetMap data, which doesn't have the discontinuity.) Any idea how to fix this?

Meanwhile, PlotARoute is missing about a 5-mile chunk of the Illilouette Creek trail. And there's something really funny about the elevation profile that it generates.



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