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Via ai Mulini

286.3 m · net rise 26.4 m · overall 9.2% · evidence quality B (good) · Morbio Inferiore · Ticino ·

Shape: stepped — 50% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 68 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)≈19%247–249 munder overhead cover terrain reads 45.9% at 277–279 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈18%245–248 munder overhead cover terrain reads 44.5% at 277–280 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈18%228–233 munder overhead cover terrain reads 40.9% at 277–282 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈18%244–254 munder overhead cover terrain reads 36.7% at 276–286 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈17.1%238–258 munder overhead cover terrain reads 24.6% at 266–286 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈16.8%229–254 munder overhead cover terrain reads 21.9% at 261–286 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈15.5%208–258 munder overhead cover terrain reads 19.1% at 236–286 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈11.7%158–258 munder overhead cover terrain reads 15.4% at 186–286 m across a structure — excluded

may 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 throughout, according to swisstopo's swissTLM3D road model.

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 16.83 % (was 12.48 %) and sits 0.0 m from the mapped centreline. On the re-measured line the steepest 25 m reads 16.8 %, below the ranking door — kept as a listed page.

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

Via ai Mulini 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).

Via ai Mulini elevation profile
Via ai Mulini 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
Tiles2722-1079
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract), snapshot 2026-09-09T20:21:20Z
Quality statusevidence quality B; caveated windows: texture excluded
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run reline-campaign-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": [
    "data/cache/ch/swissalti3d_2022_2722-1079_0.5_2056_5728.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-15T06:37:25+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/switzerland-2026-09-10.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-09-09T20:21:20Z",
  "run_id": "reline-campaign-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": [
    "2722-1079"
  ],
  "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"
}