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Mixed surface (26% unpaved) · listed, not ranked

5422.7 m · net rise 611.5 m · total ascent 635.2 m · overall 11.3% · evidence quality B (good) · Iseltwald · Bern/Berne

Shape: sustained — 38% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 565 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.

Lane near Wetzisboden (Iseltwald, Bern/Berne) is 5422.7 m long at 11.3% overall; its steepest 25 m averages ≈17.7% and its steepest 100 m ≈17.1%, measured from swisstopo's swissALTI3D 0.5 m LiDAR along the mapped road centreline.

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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: mixed (26% unpaved), according to swisstopo's swissTLM3D road model: unpaved for the first 85 m; paved from 85 m to 4,150 m; unpaved from 4,150 m to the top. The steepest 25 m lies on the unpaved part.

Pending human review: the steepest stretch of this climb (5031–5056 m) looks like a track rather than a made road: the road ends before it: the measured line carries on past the last mapped road, up a track or across a field (about 100% of the steepest 25 m and 25% of the line). The figure is published as measured and has not been adjusted, but a climb whose steepest stretch looks like a track is listed, not ranked, until a person has looked.

Access: Re-lined 2026-09-15 to the swissTLM3D road network where the measured line had left the road: the steepest 25 m now reads 17.7 % (was 18.78 %) and sits 0.0 m from the mapped centreline.

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%

Route line = the road surface as the LiDAR survey finds it. Basemap roads are for orientation and may sit a few metres off.

Topo (contours) Vector Aerial   © OpenStreetMap contributors · topo tiles © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA) · vector tiles OpenFreeMap · aerial imagery © swisstopo

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

Provenance

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