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Discovered lane (46.0993, 6.5244)

698.1 m · net rise 67.6 m · total ascent 69.3 m · overall 9.7% · evidence quality U (needs confirmation) · Marignier · Haute-Savoie ·

Shape: stepped — 56% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 151 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 IGN’s BD TOPO® road network, OpenStreetMap and the classified LiDAR HD point cloud, 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 short window divergence — treat short-window maxima here as provisional.

≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 22% of this route — detected by comparing the surface model (DSM, treetops and rooftops) against the terrain model (DTM, bare ground). Under cover the bare-ground model is built from fewer laser returns, so metre-scale readings can wobble; maxima whose window sits in a covered zone are marked ≈ below — less certain — the flag does not say whether the true value is higher or lower. Longer windows average over more clean ground and are steadier.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

WindowMaximumLocated at
2 m (diagnostic)≈46%543–545 munder overhead cover terrain reads 72.2% at 526–528 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)≈44%532–535 munder overhead cover terrain reads 68.4% at 526–529 m across a structure — excluded
5 m≈38%515–520 munder overhead cover terrain reads 58.0% at 526–531 m across a structure — excluded
10 m≈28%677–687 munder overhead cover terrain reads 52.0% at 526–536 m across a structure — excluded
20 m≈25.7%667–687 munder overhead cover terrain reads 38.4% at 525–545 m across a structure — excluded
25 m≈25.3%553–578 munder overhead cover terrain reads 35.6% at 515–540 m across a structure — excluded
50 m≈22.9%641–691 munder overhead cover terrain reads 26.3% at 495–545 m across a structure — excluded
100 m≈19.4%588–688 munder overhead cover terrain reads 22.5% at 504–604 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 (33% unpaved), according to BD TOPO®, IGN's national topographic database: unpaved for the first 50 m; paved from 50 m to 523 m; unpaved from 523 m to the top. The steepest 25 m lies on the unpaved part.

Access: Listed 2026-09-05 (inventory hunt wave 1): road audit — way 389944396: unnamed service way. Never silently ranked or dropped (Peter, 2026-08-27).

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 © IGN, BD ORTHO® (Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0)

Discovered lane (46.0993, 6.5244) 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).

Discovered lane (46.0993, 6.5244) elevation profile
Discovered lane (46.0993, 6.5244) rolling gradient profile
 

Measurement card

ElevationIGN 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 / CRS0.5 m grid, EPSG:2154; sampled every 1.0 m, bilinear interpolation
TilesE971-N6561, E972-N6561
Road centrelineOpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality statusevidence quality U; review flags: short window divergence
AnalysisOCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run fr-alps4, calculated 2026-09-17

Provenance

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  "sample_interval_m": 1.0,
  "interpolation": "bilinear",
  "smoothing": "none",
  "gradient_windows_m": [
    5.0,
    10.0,
    20.0,
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  ],
  "diagnostic_windows_m": [
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  ],
  "elevation_crs": "EPSG:2154",
  "elevation_resolution_m": 0.5,
  "elevation_tiles": [
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  ],
  "calculated_at": "2026-09-17T01:54:25+00:00",
  "road_source": "OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)",
  "road_attribution": "\u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL",
  "osm_pbf_path": "data/cache/pbf/block-batch-fr-alps4.osm.pbf",
  "osm_snapshot": "",
  "run_id": "fr-alps4",
  "elevation_provider": "IGN LiDAR HD MNT 0.5 m",
  "elevation_licence": "Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) \u2014 \u00a9 IGN, LiDAR HD (MNT/MNS), data.geopf.fr; reproduction autoris\u00e9e avec mention de la source et de la date",
  "elevation_dataset": "LiDAR HD \u2014 MNT (sol) et MNS (surface), 0,50 m (Institut national de l'information g\u00e9ographique et foresti\u00e8re), RGF93 / Lambert-93 EPSG:2154, altitudes IGN69",
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  "ign_editions": [
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  },
  "climb_origin": "discovered",
  "structure_own_ways": "none \u2014 the route carried no way list; own decks unmasked",
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