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Riegleralmweg

6229.4 m · net rise 582.5 m · total ascent 599.4 m · overall 9.4% · evidence quality B (good) · Sankt Georgen am Kreischberg · Steiermark ·

Shape: sustained — 26% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 125 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 24% 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)≈39%5307–5309 munder overhead cover terrain reads 114.8% at 5379–5381 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈37%6184–6187 munder overhead cover terrain reads 106.9% at 5379–5382 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
5 m≈35%6184–6189 munder overhead cover terrain reads 86.8% at 5378–5383 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
10 m≈28%6183–6193 munder overhead cover terrain reads 63.1% at 5374–5384 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈26.4%6180–6200 munder overhead cover terrain reads 35.3% at 5371–5391 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈23.7%6176–6201 munder overhead cover terrain reads 28.6% at 5371–5396 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈15.4%6151–6201 munder overhead cover terrain reads 18.4% at 5339–5389 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
100 m≈12.6%333–433 munder overhead cover terrain reads 14.3% at 115–215 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded

may start earlierdescends at 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: unpaved (100% unpaved), according to GIP.at, Austria's official transport graph: unpaved for the first 579 m; surface unrecorded from 579 m to 1,076 m; unpaved from 1,076 m to 1,722 m; surface unrecorded from 1,722 m to 1,962 m; unpaved from 1,962 m to 2,249 m; surface unrecorded from 2,249 m to 2,468 m; unpaved from 2,468 m to 2,698 m; surface unrecorded from 2,698 m to 3,255 m; unpaved from 3,255 m to 3,471 m; surface unrecorded from 3,471 m to 3,660 m; unpaved from 3,660 m to 5,095 m; surface unrecorded from 5,095 m to 5,335 m; unpaved from 5,335 m to 6,153 m; surface unrecorded from 6,153 m to 6,193 m.

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)

Riegleralmweg 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).

Riegleralmweg elevation profile
Riegleralmweg 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
TilesE4629-N2670, E4629-N2671, E4629-N2672, E4630-N2671, E4630-N2672, E4631-N2671, E4631-N2672
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: canopy or structure, no bench excluded, structure excluded, texture excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run at-run4-260912, calculated 2026-09-13

Provenance

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  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:3035",
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  "calculated_at": "2026-09-13T00:02:12+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",
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