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Discovered lane (46.7903, 7.3833)

1772.5 m · net rise 126.5 m · total ascent 130.3 m · overall 7.1% · evidence quality B (good) · Rüschegg · Bern/Berne ·

Shape: stepped — 47% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 142 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?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈45%753–755 munder overhead cover terrain reads 109.8% at 884–886 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈40%753–756 munder overhead cover terrain reads 90.1% at 883–886 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈35%750–755 munder overhead cover terrain reads 63.3% at 881–886 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈28%750–760 munder overhead cover terrain reads 43.1% at 881–891 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈23.5%739–759 munder overhead cover terrain reads 28.6% at 873–893 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈23.1%824–849 munder overhead cover terrain reads 26.4% at 794–819 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈21.6%813–863 munder overhead cover terrain reads 24.4% at 794–844 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈13.8%619–719 munder overhead cover terrain reads 23.1% at 794–894 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: mixed (48% unpaved), according to swisstopo's swissTLM3D road model: paved for the first 695 m; unpaved from 695 m to 1,476 m; paved from 1,476 m to 1,694 m; unpaved from 1,694 m to the top. The steepest 25 m lies on the unpaved part.

Access: Listed 2026-09-11 (Switzerland run 7): road audit — way 206108111: unnamed service way; way 206108111: service way, surface untagged; way 206108116: unnamed service way; way 206108116: service way, surface untagged; way 413837100: unnamed service way; . Never silently ranked or dropped (Peter, 2026-08-27).

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 © swisstopo

Discovered lane (46.7903, 7.3833) 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).

Discovered lane (46.7903, 7.3833) elevation profile
Discovered lane (46.7903, 7.3833) rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

Elevationswisstopo swissALTI3D — swissALTI3D 0.5 m DTM (Federal Office of Topography swisstopo)
Resolution / CRS0.5 m grid, EPSG:2056; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
Tiles2595-1182, 2596-1182
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: published excluded, structure excluded, suppression unstable, texture excluded, texture excluded min
AnalysisOCL 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_2025_2595-1182_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2025_2596-1182_0.5_2056_5728.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-11T02:32:11+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": [
    "2595-1182",
    "2596-1182"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "canopy_check": "unavailable \u2014 no surface model (DSM or point cloud) registered for this coverage",
  "suppression_unstable": [
    5.0
  ],
  "qa_replayed": {
    "on": "2026-09-20",
    "rule": "window texture with the sampling-stability gate (retro suppression-verdicts-stability; Peter 2026-09-20)",
    "retro": [
      "window-texture",
      "hump-advisory",
      "suppression-verdict-stability"
    ],
    "method": "replayed over the page's own published profile \u2014 no raster, no re-line, no re-resample",
    "script": "scripts/texture_sweep_apply.py",
    "code_git_sha": "fd294479d730",
    "published_max25_pct": 26.36,
    "max25_pct": 23.06,
    "move_pp": -3.3,
    "reasons": "hump;short-step"
  },
  "remeasured": {
    "on": "2026-09-20",
    "why": "texture replay (texture-replay)",
    "published_max25_pct": 26.36,
    "max25_pct": 23.06
  },
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}