Ben Pease is a freelance cartographer who specializes in maps for authors, park agencies and hiking guidebooks. His Pease Press maps show San Francisco Bay Area parks, neighborhoods, and transit connections in detail. He drew the downloadable maps and elevation profiles for the Crosstown Trail website. Originally from Boston, he’s lived in San Francisco since 1976. An avid hiker, he helped plan the Bay Area Ridge Trail route through San Francisco in the 1990s, he’s co-led the annual San Francisco Coastwalk since 1988, and volunteers building trails with Sutro Stewards.