diff --git a/db/packets.go b/db/packets.go
index eafd845..33a5392 100644
--- a/db/packets.go
+++ b/db/packets.go
@@ -323,6 +323,20 @@ func (s *Store) GetPacket(ctx context.Context, packetHash []byte) (*api.Packet,
 		}
 		p.TransportCodes = tc
 	}
+	// TRACE payloads repurpose the per-observation Path field to carry per-hop SNR bytes
+	// rather than hashes (see internal/ingest/packet.go), so per-observation PathBytes
+	// can't be resolved the normal way for TRACE. The actual resolvable path is the
+	// trace payload's own embedded PathHashes -- constant for this packet hash, so
+	// compute it once rather than per observation.
+	var traceRawHashes [][]byte
+	if row.PayloadType == int16(meshcore.PayloadTypeTrace) {
+		if trace, err := meshcore.TraceFromBytes(row.RawPayload); err == nil {
+			hashSize := int(trace.PathHashSize())
+			for i := 0; i+hashSize <= len(trace.PathHashes); i += hashSize {
+				traceRawHashes = append(traceRawHashes, trace.PathHashes[i:i+hashSize])
+			}
+		}
+	}
 	for _, v := range obsRows {
 		obs := api.PacketObservationDetail{
 			ID:           v.ID,
@@ -342,7 +356,16 @@ func (s *Store) GetPacket(ctx context.Context, packetHash []byte) (*api.Packet,
 		prop := int32(v.HeardAt.Time.Sub(minHeardAt).Milliseconds())
 		obs.PropagationTimeMs = &prop
 		resolvedPath := []api.ResolvedHop{}
-		if v.PathBytes != nil && v.HashSize > 0 {
+		if row.PayloadType == int16(meshcore.PayloadTypeTrace) {
+			if len(traceRawHashes) > 0 {
+				resolved, err := s.ResolvePathHashes(ctx, v.Iata, traceRawHashes)
+				if err != nil {
+					log.Printf("store: path resolution failed for observation %d: %v", v.ID, err)
+				} else {
+					resolvedPath = api.BuildResolvedPath(traceRawHashes, resolved)
+				}
+			}
+		} else if v.PathBytes != nil && v.HashSize > 0 {
 			hashSize := int(v.HashSize)
 			hashes := make([][]byte, 0, len(v.PathBytes)/hashSize)
 			for i := 0; i+hashSize <= len(v.PathBytes); i += hashSize {
@@ -356,7 +379,19 @@ func (s *Store) GetPacket(ctx context.Context, packetHash []byte) (*api.Packet,
 			}
 		}
 		obs.ResolvedPath = resolvedPath
-		if v.PathBytes != nil {
+		if row.PayloadType == int16(meshcore.PayloadTypeTrace) && len(traceRawHashes) > 0 {
+			// Swap in the trace's own path hashes so PathData's hop-block split (driven by
+			// pathBytes + hashSize) lines up 1:1 with resolvedPath -- the raw SNR bytes
+			// from the physical Path field don't chunk into the same hop count.
+			var traceHashBytes []byte
+			for _, h := range traceRawHashes {
+				traceHashBytes = append(traceHashBytes, h...)
+			}
+			pb := hex.EncodeToString(traceHashBytes)
+			obs.PathBytes = &pb
+			obs.PathLength.HashSize = int16(len(traceRawHashes[0]))
+			obs.PathLength.HopCount = int16(len(traceRawHashes))
+		} else if v.PathBytes != nil {
 			pb := hex.EncodeToString(v.PathBytes)
 			obs.PathBytes = &pb
 		}
diff --git a/internal/ingest/packet.go b/internal/ingest/packet.go
index 92fec21..b4c6277 100644
--- a/internal/ingest/packet.go
+++ b/internal/ingest/packet.go
@@ -336,6 +336,10 @@ func (w *Worker) handlePacket(ctx context.Context, iata, pubkeyHex string, raw [
 	originPubkey := []byte(nil)
 	var parsedPayload json.RawMessage
 	var traceTag []byte
+	// For PayloadTypeTrace, packet.Path holds one SNR byte per hop (not hashes -- see
+	// below), so the "physical route" hashes for resolvedPath/known-route purposes come
+	// instead from the TRACE payload's own embedded PathHashes (the path being probed).
+	var traceRawHashes [][]byte
 
 	switch packet.PayloadType() {
 	case meshcore.PayloadTypeGrpTxt:
@@ -515,6 +519,7 @@ func (w *Worker) handlePacket(ctx context.Context, iata, pubkeyHex string, raw [
 				hashes = append(hashes, hex.EncodeToString(h))
 				rawHashes = append(rawHashes, h)
 			}
+			traceRawHashes = rawHashes
 			// SNR values are in packet.Path, one signed int8 per consumed hop
 			snrValues := make([]float32, 0, len(packet.Path))
 			for _, b := range packet.Path {
@@ -761,7 +766,15 @@ func (w *Worker) handlePacket(ctx context.Context, iata, pubkeyHex string, raw [
 		}
 	}
 
-	resolved, err := w.db.ResolvePathHashes(ctx, iata, packet.PathHashes())
+	// packet.PathHashes() reads packet.Path as hash-sized chunks, which is only true for
+	// ordinary flood/direct-routed packets. TRACE repurposes packet.Path to carry one SNR
+	// byte per hop instead, so for TRACE we resolve against the trace payload's own
+	// PathHashes (the path being probed) rather than treating SNR bytes as hashes.
+	hashes := packet.PathHashes()
+	if packet.PayloadType() == meshcore.PayloadTypeTrace {
+		hashes = traceRawHashes
+	}
+	resolved, err := w.db.ResolvePathHashes(ctx, iata, hashes)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("ingest[%s]: path resolution failed: %v", w.cfg.BrokerName, err)
 	}
@@ -771,7 +784,6 @@ func (w *Worker) handlePacket(ctx context.Context, iata, pubkeyHex string, raw [
 			resolvedIDs = append(resolvedIDs, e.NodeID)
 		}
 	}
-	hashes := packet.PathHashes()
 	if len(hashes) > 0 && resolved != nil {
 		allHigh := true
 		nodeIDs := make([]uuid.UUID, 0, len(hashes))