East Helmsdale to Creag Marail°
2445.6 m · net rise 160.3 m · total ascent 201.9 m · overall 6.6% · confidence: needs confirmation · West Helmsdale · Highland
Shape: sustained — 34% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 249 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 (58.1191, -3.6646)'). Corrections welcome.
needs review short_window_divergence — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.
Gradient ladder what do windows mean?
| Window | Maximum | Located at | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 m (diagnostic) | ≈52% | 478–480 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 62.3% at 471–473 m across a structure — excluded |
| 3 m (diagnostic) | ≈41% | 450–453 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 42.5% at 2228–2231 m across a structure — excluded |
| 5 m | 37% | 448–453 m | |
| 10 m | 26% | 444–454 m | |
| 20 m | ≈17.9% | 434–454 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 18.7% at 2211–2231 m across a structure — excluded |
| 25 m | ≈17.1% | 1658–1683 m | under overhead cover terrain reads 19.3% at 448–473 m across a structure — excluded |
| 50 m | 16.3% | 1658–1708 m | |
| 100 m | 15.7% | 1611–1711 m |
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.
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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,
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],
"elevation_crs": "EPSG:27700",
"elevation_resolution_m": 1.0,
"elevation_tiles": [
"data/cache/scotland/phase-2/dtm/ND01.tif"
],
"calculated_at": "2026-08-18T18:40:24+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 13.2% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 37.3 m over 1047 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +0 segment(s) at base, +4 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. DEDUPE: absorbed 2 overlapping proposal(s): coir-park-road, discovered-lane-58-1136-3-6615 ADOPTED (Scotland launch 2026-08-18): big-gain. AUTO-NAMED from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed): was 'Discovered lane (58.1191, -3.6646)'.",
"naming_note": "auto-named from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed); discovered as 'Discovered lane (58.1191, -3.6646)'"
}