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Sierra South now spans the Sierra from the southern boundary of Yosemite National Park and from Yosemite’s eastern boundary south of Hwy. 120 (the Tioga Road) to the Sherman Pass area, covering a greater north-south region than previous editions. This region includes the true High Sierra, with its abundance of dramatic, above-treeline granite peaks and basins. As of its ninth edition, this book’s sister, Sierra North, covers the Sierra from Yosemite north through the Tahoe area to I-80 and the proposed Castle Peak Wilderness just north of I-80.

Unlike the region covered by Sierra North, in the territory this book covers, no roads cross the range between Hwy. 120 on the north and the network of roads that cross Sherman Pass, a distance of some 140 air miles to the south. However, along those 140 air miles, many roads penetrate the range from its west and east sides, and these are the roads you’ll use to get to trailheads in this book. The book’s first major trip section covers the region’s west side and presents roads into the west side from north to south. The second major trip section covers the Sierra’s east side and, also from north to south, the roads into the range from the east.