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Chemin du Racca

1108.9 m · net rise 122.5 m · total ascent 123.3 m · overall 11.0% · evidence quality B (good) · Ormont-Dessus · Vaud · share

Shape: sustained — 43% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 181 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 swisstopo’s swissTLM3D road model, 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?

Window	Maximum	Located at
2 m (diagnostic)	≈33%	677–679 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 64.1% at 828–830 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)	≈33%	822–825 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 60.0% at 828–831 m across a structure — excluded
5 m	≈32%	820–825 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 58.1% at 828–833 m across a structure — excluded
10 m	≈29%	717–727 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 53.2% at 828–838 m across a structure — excluded
20 m	≈28.3%	710–730 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 39.0% at 818–838 m across a structure — excluded
25 m	≈27.8%	705–730 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 36.5% at 813–838 m across a structure — excluded
50 m	≈26.6%	705–755 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 29.0% at 788–838 m across a structure — excluded
100 m	≈24.8%	673–773 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 25.6% at 738–838 m across a structure — excluded

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 (16% unpaved), according to swisstopo's swissTLM3D road model: paved for the first 666 m; unpaved from 666 m to 830 m; paved from 830 m to the top. The steepest 25 m lies on the unpaved part.

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%

Chemin du Racca 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).

Measurement card

Elevation	swisstopo swissALTI3D — swissALTI3D 0.5 m DTM (Federal Office of Topography swisstopo)
Resolution / CRS	0.5 m grid, EPSG:2056; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
Tiles	2578-1132, 2578-1133, 2579-1132, 2579-1133
Road centreline	OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality status	evidence quality B; caveated windows: structure excluded
Analysis	OCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run ch-run7-260911, calculated 2026-09-11

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:2056",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 0.5,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2021_2578-1132_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2021_2578-1133_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2021_2579-1132_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2021_2579-1133_0.5_2056_5728.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-11T01:30:35+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/switzerland-2026-09-10-batch.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "",
  "run_id": "ch-run7-260911",
  "elevation_provider": "swisstopo swissALTI3D",
  "elevation_licence": "swisstopo open government data (OGD): free use, attribution '\u00a9 swisstopo' \u2014 https://www.swisstopo.admin.ch/en/terms-and-conditions",
  "elevation_dataset": "swissALTI3D 0.5 m DTM (Federal Office of Topography swisstopo)",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "2578-1132",
    "2578-1133",
    "2579-1132",
    "2579-1133"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "canopy_check": "unavailable \u2014 no surface model (DSM or point cloud) registered for this coverage",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}