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Montée de l'Église

3956.2 m · net rise 236.8 m · total ascent 238.0 m · overall 6.0% · evidence quality B (good) · Essertines-en-Châtelneuf · Loire · share

Shape: sustained — 33% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 127 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.

Gradient ladder what do windows mean?

Window	Maximum	Located at
2 m (diagnostic)	25%	104–106 m
3 m (diagnostic)	25%	104–107 m
5 m	24%	102–107 m
10 m	24%	101–111 m
20 m	22.0%	92–112 m
25 m	21.5%	90–115 m
50 m	≈18.2%	68–118 m	under overhead cover
100 m	≈16.0%	17–117 m	under overhead cover

may start earlier 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 (2% unpaved), according to BD TOPO®, IGN's national topographic database: unpaved for the first 99 m; paved from 99 m to the top. The steepest 25 m lies on the paved part.

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%

Montée de l'Église 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	E775-N6502, E776-N6502, E777-N6502, E778-N6502
Road centreline	OpenStreetMap (local PBF extract)
Quality status	evidence quality B; caveated windows: canopy or structure
Analysis	OCL 0.1.0, analysis 0.1.0, run fr-mc6, calculated 2026-09-22

Provenance

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