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Col du Soulor from Cirque du Litor

Paved · ranked

2197.6 m · net rise 117.5 m · total ascent 136.2 m · overall 5.3% · evidence quality B (good) · Béost · Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Shape: sustained — 41% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 42 m.

Not yet matched against documented climbs — the measurement stands on its own.

Col du Soulor from Cirque du Litor (Béost, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is 2197.6 m long at 5.3% overall; its steepest 25 m averages ≈12.2% and its steepest 100 m ≈9.5%, measured from IGN's LiDAR HD 0.5 m laser surveys along the mapped road centreline.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

Window	Maximum	Located at
2 m (diagnostic)	≈15%	684–686 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 804.0% at 11–13 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)	≈14%	683–686 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 548.8% at 11–14 m across a structure — excluded
5 m	≈14%	683–688 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 329.5% at 11–16 m across a structure — excluded
10 m	≈14%	679–689 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 165.0% at 11–21 m across a structure — excluded
20 m	≈12.5%	675–695 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 82.7% at 11–31 m across a structure — excluded
25 m	≈12.2%	667–692 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 66.2% at 11–36 m across a structure — excluded
50 m	≈10.8%	653–703 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 34.1% at 11–61 m across a structure — excluded
100 m	≈9.5%	628–728 m	under overhead cover terrain reads 19.8% at 11–111 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: paved throughout, according to BD TOPO®, IGN's national topographic database.

Access: Ranked 2026-10-24: IGN BD TOPO carries 100% of the route as public road (0% restricted), which answers the OSM audit question (barrier gate without an access tag). A barrier gate without an access tag sits on the route; gates on public roads are usually seasonal — check on the ground.

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%

Route line = the road surface as the LiDAR survey finds it. Basemap roads are for orientation and may sit a few metres off.

Col du Soulor from Cirque du Litor 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).

Measurement card

Elevation	IGN LiDAR HD MNT 0.5 m — LiDAR HD — MNT (sol) et MNS (surface), 0,50 m (Institut national de l'information géographique et forestière), RGF93 / Lambert-93 EPSG:2154, altitudes IGN69
Resolution / CRS	0.5 m grid, EPSG:2154; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
Tiles	E431-N6211, E432-N6211, E432-N6212, E433-N6211, E433-N6212
Road centreline	OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality status	evidence quality B; caveated windows: structure excluded, structure excluded min
Analysis	OCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run fr-pyr1, calculated 2026-09-20

Provenance

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