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Gartymore to Creag Marail°

2160.3 m · net rise 177.7 m · total ascent 192.3 m · overall 8.2% · confidence: good · Gartymore · Highland

Shape: sustained — 41% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 358 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 the OS road network, surface models and map tags, 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.

° The name is provisional: this climb is not yet matched to a documented name, so it was named from nearby map places. There is no evidence of local usage — (auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (58.1113, -3.6761)'). Corrections welcome.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)37%1215–1217 munder overhead cover terrain reads 67.5% at 1944–1946 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)34%480–483 munder overhead cover terrain reads 51.7% at 1943–1946 m across a structure — excluded
5 m31%478–483 munder overhead cover terrain reads 42.1% at 1941–1946 m across a structure — excluded
10 m26%476–486 munder overhead cover terrain reads 27.8% at 1936–1946 m across a structure — excluded
20 m21.6%474–494 m
25 m20.6%473–498 m
50 m18.0%476–526 m
100 m17.2%675–775 m

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.

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

Gartymore to Creag Marail LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

Gartymore to Creag Marail elevation profile Gartymore to Creag Marail rolling gradient profile

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:27700",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
  "elevation_tiles": [
    "data/cache/scotland/phase-2/dtm/ND01.tif"
  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-08-18T18:40:22+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/scotland-2026-08-14-roads.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "2026-08-13T20:21:01Z",
  "elevation_provider": "Scottish Remote Sensing Portal (AWS Open Data, srsp-open-data)",
  "elevation_licence": "Open Government Licence v3 \u2014 \u00a9 Scottish Government, SEPA and partners; Crown copyright",
  "elevation_dataset": "Scottish Public Sector LiDAR Phase 2 1m",
  "elevation_tile_ids": [
    "ND01"
  ],
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "notes": "Coarse pass: max 15.4% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 130.5 m over 1684 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +0 segment(s) at base, +2 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. DEDUPE: absorbed 1 overlapping proposal(s): gartymore-north-road ADOPTED (Scotland launch 2026-08-18): big-gain,clean-steep. AUTO-NAMED from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed): was 'Discovered lane (58.1113, -3.6761)'.",
  "naming_note": "auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (58.1113, -3.6761)'"
}