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Tunetschalpstrasse

7619.9 m · net rise 733.7 m · total ascent 847.3 m · overall 9.6% · evidence quality U (needs confirmation) · Mörel-Filet · Valais/Wallis ·

Shape: sustained — 30% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 111 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.

needs review texture unresolved — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈52%4447–4449 munder overhead cover terrain reads 150.0% at 5511–5513 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈50%4447–4450 munder overhead cover terrain reads 122.2% at 5511–5514 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈39%4482–4487 munder overhead cover terrain reads 106.2% at 5508–5513 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈32%4519–4529 munder overhead cover terrain reads 77.2% at 5508–5518 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈23.7%1703–1723 munder overhead cover terrain reads 61.9% at 4458–4478 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈18.5%1993–2018 munder overhead cover terrain reads 55.2% at 4454–4479 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈17.2%1967–2017 munder overhead cover terrain reads 37.4% at 4441–4491 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈12.8%1917–2017 munder overhead cover terrain reads 28.1% at 4455–4555 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 (26% unpaved), according to swisstopo's swissTLM3D road model: paved for the first 1,613 m; unpaved from 1,613 m to 3,456 m; paved from 3,456 m to 4,400 m; unpaved from 4,400 m to 4,449 m; paved from 4,449 m to 7,585 m. The steepest 25 m lies on the unpaved part.

Access: Listed 2026-09-11 (Peter, Martinsegg lane): the steepest 25 m sits 5 m or more off the road authority's centreline AND the coarse surface disagrees with the LiDAR by 10 points or more there — together a sign the line has left the road onto steeper ground. Held from the rankings until re-lined to the centreline and re-measured. Toll road: motor vehicles pay; bicycles — charge unknown (OpenStreetMap toll tags, 2026-09-15). Peter 2026-09-15: the steepest 25 m sits off the mapped road while the rest of the line is on it — kept listed, not retired.

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

Tunetschalpstrasse 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).

Tunetschalpstrasse elevation profile
Tunetschalpstrasse 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
Tiles2646-1132, 2646-1133, 2646-1134, 2647-1132, 2647-1133, 2647-1134
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality U; review flags: texture unresolved
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run spike-remeasure-260915, calculated 2026-09-15

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": [
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    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2646-1133_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2646-1134_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2647-1132_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2647-1133_0.5_2056_5728.tif",
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2024_2647-1134_0.5_2056_5728.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-15T04:24:38+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "output/spike-remeasure/batch-switzerland.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "",
  "run_id": "spike-remeasure-260915",
  "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": [
    "2646-1132",
    "2646-1133",
    "2646-1134",
    "2647-1132",
    "2647-1133",
    "2647-1134"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "canopy_check": "unavailable \u2014 no surface model (DSM or point cloud) registered for this coverage",
  "structure_own_ways": "none \u2014 the route carried no way list; own decks unmasked",
  "license": "ODbL-1.0",
  "license_url": "https://howsteep.org/licensing"
}