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Ellmau

2830.8 m · net rise 304.7 m · overall 10.8% · evidence quality B (good) · Großarl · Salzburg ·

Shape: sustained — 27% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 289 m.

Found purely from mapping and LiDAR data, and not yet matched against books, race records or lists — it may be well known to locals under a name we've never heard. It was cross-checked against the GIP.at road network, OpenStreetMap and a second terrain model, but a discovery can still be an artifact of the terrain model or the map. Treat it as a well-evidenced hypothesis until someone has ridden it. If you know this road, tell us what you found — photographs, corrections and local knowledge all welcome; the map links below let you scout it first.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈32%897–899 munder overhead cover terrain reads 191.0% at 0–2 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈31%897–900 munder overhead cover terrain reads 174.5% at 0–3 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈27%895–900 munder overhead cover terrain reads 117.4% at 0–5 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈23%891–901 munder overhead cover terrain reads 63.1% at 0–10 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈18.2%886–906 munder overhead cover terrain reads 36.1% at 0–20 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈16.8%884–909 munder overhead cover terrain reads 30.8% at 0–25 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈13.3%657–707 munder overhead cover terrain reads 19.7% at 0–50 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈12.9%666–766 munder overhead cover terrain reads 14.0% at 0–100 m across a structure — excluded

may start earliermay continue beyond end Extent detection suggests reviewing where this climb starts/ends.

Map

Check this route yourself: Google Maps route via their router · Street View at the base where coverage exists · geojson.io our exact measured line · OpenTopoMap

This climb's data: OCL JSON — the full gradient ladder, quality flags and provenance in the OpenClimb Ladder format.

Surface: paved (0% unpaved), according to GIP.at, Austria's official transport graph: surface unrecorded for the first 475 m; paved from 475 m to 834 m; surface unrecorded from 834 m to 1,585 m; paved from 1,585 m to 2,694 m; surface unrecorded from 2,694 m to the top.

Measured, not vetted. This page records what the laser record shows about the road's shape — nothing more. Nobody has necessarily ridden or inspected this road for the survey, and a page here is not a recommendation and no guarantee that the road is open, surfaced, rideable or safe. Gates, private sections, missing rights of way and hazards do not show up in elevation data. Check access and conditions on the ground and make your own judgment.

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Route colour = gradient over a 25 m window: <10% 10–20% 20–25% ≥25%

  © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap · aerial imagery © basemap.at (CC BY 4.0)

Ellmau LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

The map, profile and gradient chart share one position — move your pointer over them and the marker follows. Colors are the gradient bands; the shaded span is the steepest 25 m. Any 25 m figure is good to about a point either way (why).

Ellmau elevation profile
Ellmau rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

ElevationBEV ALS DTM 1 m — ALS DTM Höhenraster 1 m (Bundesamt für Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the Länder), EPSG:3035
Resolution / CRS1.0 m grid, EPSG:3035; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
TilesE4563-N2685, E4564-N2684, E4564-N2685
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: canopy or structure, structure excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run at-run4-260912, calculated 2026-09-13

Provenance

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  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
    50.0,
    100.0
  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
    2.0,
    3.0
  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:3035",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/at/bev-als_dtm_E4563-N2685.tif",
    "data/cache/at/bev-als_dtm_E4564-N2684.tif",
    "data/cache/at/bev-als_dtm_E4564-N2685.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-13T00:28:24+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/austria-2026-09-11-batch-at-run4-260912.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "",
  "run_id": "at-run4-260912",
  "elevation_provider": "BEV ALS DTM 1 m",
  "elevation_licence": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) \u2014 \u00a9 BEV / L\u00e4nder, data.gv.at",
  "elevation_dataset": "ALS DTM H\u00f6henraster 1 m (Bundesamt f\u00fcr Eich- und Vermessungswesen with the L\u00e4nder), EPSG:3035",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "E4563-N2685",
    "E4564-N2684",
    "E4564-N2685"
  ],
  "elevation_blocks": [
    "N2650000E4550000@2022-09-15"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}