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Valisera

420.8 m · net rise 68.1 m · total ascent 75.4 m · overall 16.2% · evidence quality U (needs confirmation) · St. Gallenkirch · Vorarlberg ·

Shape: sustained — 37% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 98 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.

needs review unresolved windows — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.

≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 42% 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%155–157 munder overhead cover terrain reads 96.8% at 283–285 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈37%154–157 munder overhead cover terrain reads 92.2% at 282–285 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
5 m≈24%373–378 munder overhead cover terrain reads 79.1% at 281–286 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
10 m≈23%372–382 munder overhead cover terrain reads 62.8% at 276–286 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
20 m≈21.6%343–363 munder overhead cover terrain reads 43.0% at 273–293 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
25 m≈21.1%343–368 munder overhead cover terrain reads 38.8% at 221–246 m across a structure and terrain that holds no road surface (dense canopy, no bench) — excluded
50 m≈20.2%340–390 munder overhead cover terrain reads 29.4% at 196–246 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: 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 21.1 %.

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)

Valisera 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).

Valisera elevation profile
Valisera 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-N2652
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-09-10T20:21:06Z
Quality statusevidence quality U; review flags: unresolved windows
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-N2652.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-15T22:41:25+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-N2652"
  ],
  "elevation_blocks": [
    "N2650000E4300000@2022-09-15"
  ],
  "bev_dsm_release": {
    "N2650000E4300000": "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"
}