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Kelle

631.2 m · net rise 88.8 m · total ascent 89.5 m · overall 14.1% · evidence quality B (good) · Egg · Vorarlberg ·

Shape: stepped — 54% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 129 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.

≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 32% of this route — detected by comparing the surface model (DSM, treetops and rooftops) against the terrain model (DTM, bare ground). Under cover the bare-ground model is built from fewer laser returns, so metre-scale readings can wobble; maxima whose window sits in a covered zone are marked ≈ below — less certain — the flag does not say whether the true value is higher or lower. Longer windows average over more clean ground and are steadier.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈27%483–485 munder overhead cover terrain reads 245.6% at 507–509 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈27%481–484 munder overhead cover terrain reads 238.9% at 506–509 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈27%480–485 munder overhead cover terrain reads 211.1% at 505–510 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈26%475–485 munder overhead cover terrain reads 155.5% at 501–511 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈25.7%472–492 munder overhead cover terrain reads 101.7% at 499–519 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈25.3%468–493 munder overhead cover terrain reads 85.1% at 499–524 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈24.4%444–494 munder overhead cover terrain reads 54.7% at 467–517 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈19.1%397–497 munder overhead cover terrain reads 37.8% at 427–527 m across a structure — excluded

may 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: GIP.at, Austria's official transport graph records no surface for this road; the map may tell you more.

Access: Trimmed 2026-09-15 at the tail dog-leg (a driveway, Peter's ruling); the steepest 25 m now reads 25.3 %.

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)

Kelle 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).

Kelle elevation profile
Kelle 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
TilesE4316-N2701
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-09-10T20:21:06Z
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: canopy or structure, structure excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run retro-260915-dogleg-all, calculated 2026-09-15

Provenance

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  "analysis_version": "0.1.0",
  "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_E4316-N2701.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-15T22:12:37+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/austria-2026-09-11.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-09-10T20:21:06Z",
  "run_id": "retro-260915-dogleg-all",
  "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": [
    "E4316-N2701"
  ],
  "elevation_blocks": [
    "N2700000E4300000@2022-09-15"
  ],
  "bev_dsm_release": {
    "N2700000E4300000": "20220915"
  },
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "structure_own_ways": "none \u2014 the route carried no way list; own decks unmasked",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}