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Les Cibleries

442.1 m · net rise 52.8 m · total ascent 55.2 m · overall 11.9% · evidence quality B (good) · Port-Valais · Valais/Wallis ·

Shape: sustained — 42% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 174 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)≈27%224–226 munder overhead cover terrain reads 32.1% at 135–137 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈26%225–228 munder overhead cover terrain reads 31.8% at 134–137 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈25%224–229 munder overhead cover terrain reads 30.5% at 134–139 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈23%79–89 munder overhead cover terrain reads 29.8% at 131–141 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈22.6%79–99 munder overhead cover terrain reads 28.4% at 123–143 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈22.0%79–104 munder overhead cover terrain reads 27.6% at 123–148 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈21.0%70–120 munder overhead cover terrain reads 24.4% at 98–148 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈18.2%20–120 munder overhead cover terrain reads 21.6% at 53–153 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: paved (20% unpaved), according to swisstopo's swissTLM3D road model: paved for the first 160 m; unpaved from 160 m to 240 m; paved from 240 m to the top. The steepest 25 m lies on the paved part.

Access: Listed 2026-09-10 (Switzerland run 6): road audit — way 305355650: service way, surface untagged. 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

Les Cibleries 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).

Les Cibleries elevation profile
Les Cibleries 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
Tiles2554-1136, 2555-1136
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: texture excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run texture-ch-ch-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_2024_2554-1136_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2555-1136_0.5_2056_5728.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-11T23:51:01+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "output/texture-ch-ch/batch-switzerland-rchunk01.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "",
  "run_id": "texture-ch-ch-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": [
    "2554-1136",
    "2555-1136"
  ],
  "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"
}