Talk:Sierra High Route

Long table of coordinates
I'm thinking that the long table of coordinates may be excessive and not helpful to our readers. This would fall under the excessive listing of statistics policy. I'm leaning towards deleting the table: what do other editors think? —hike395 (talk) 16:17, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I will go ahead and delete. —hike395 (talk) 03:52, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

This article is misleading
This is my first wikipedia foray. I have not made any changes because my point would require a fairly substantial change, including the page title. Since I'm new to the community I'm going to make this point in Talk and see what happens. I'm a pretty experience Sierra backcountry traveller who spends large amounts of time in the Sierra in all 4 seasons. I didn't know there was a Wikipedia trails project and am interested in contributing to this. I know a lot of trails.

The Roper Route is not the High Route. The page is *technically* correct in distinguishing this from the High Sierra Trail, but functionally very confusing. Everybody (including a leading guide company Alpine Skills International) referes to the High Sierra Trail as the High Route. Walk into a mountain shop in California and ask about the High Route and you'll get an answer about the High Sierra Trail, not the Roper Route. Among Sierra mountain people the High Route = High Sierra Trail. Roper Route = Roper Route.

The confusion comes from the fact that the Roper Route is inspired by/associate with the alpine (as in Europe) Haute Route, but this does not apply in the Sierra. The page title should be changed to the Roper Route, and probably a disambiguation page should be created for confused users. Since this is my first foray I'm reluctant to do this without community support, but will put in the legwork if somebody thinks this is the right thing to do. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cdale777 (talk • contribs) 05:06, 25 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I agree it's kind of confusing, but the article gets its name from Roper's book "Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country." Chisme (talk) 18:50, 17 May 2018 (UTC)