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Route de Mauvoisin

11500.4 m · net rise 1008.5 m · total ascent 1056.7 m · overall 8.8% · evidence quality B (good) · Val de Bagnes · Valais/Wallis ·

Shape: sustained — 27% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 139 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)≈43%8718–8720 munder overhead cover terrain reads 226.2% at 1032–1034 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈31%5990–5993 munder overhead cover terrain reads 161.0% at 1032–1035 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈27%5989–5994 munder overhead cover terrain reads 100.5% at 1032–1037 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈21%11170–11180 munder overhead cover terrain reads 55.5% at 1032–1042 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈16.5%11162–11182 munder overhead cover terrain reads 32.8% at 1032–1052 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈15.0%11157–11182 munder overhead cover terrain reads 28.5% at 1032–1057 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈13.1%7501–7551 munder overhead cover terrain reads 18.8% at 1032–1082 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈12.7%7857–7957 munder overhead cover terrain reads 14.3% at 1032–1132 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: mixed (57% unpaved), according to swisstopo's swissTLM3D road model: unpaved for the first 109 m; paved from 109 m to 5,097 m; unpaved from 5,097 m to 11,458 m. 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%

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

Route de Mauvoisin 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).

Route de Mauvoisin elevation profile
Route de Mauvoisin 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
Tiles2584-1098, 2584-1099, 2585-1098, 2585-1099, 2586-1097, 2586-1098, 2586-1099, 2587-1097, 2587-1098, 2587-1099
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: structure excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run ch-run7-260911, calculated 2026-09-11

Provenance

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  "smoothing": "none",
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    10.0,
    20.0,
    25.0,
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  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
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  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:2056",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 0.5,
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    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2585-1098_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2585-1099_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2586-1097_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2586-1098_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2586-1099_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2587-1097_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2587-1098_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
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  "calculated_at": "2026-09-11T02:27:02+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)",
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  "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"
}