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Start to Shady Switchback

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Tawonga Gap Road, Tawonga South, Mount Beauty, Alpine Shire, Victoria, 3697, Australia
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Climb Profile

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Climb Stats

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Climb categoryCategory 3
Distance2.6 km / 1.61 miles
Elevation gain171 m / 561 ft
Average gradient6.6%
Maximum gradient13.7%
Elevation high573.4 m / 1,881 ft
Elevation low402.4 m / 1,320 ft
Climb difficulty score17,093.52

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Climb Rank

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This climb ranks 283,703rd out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

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Ranked as the 6,167th most difficult cycling climb of all 97,639 climbs in Australia.

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Places 1,689th out of 25,936 cycling climbs in Victoria.

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Ranks 16th out of 28 cycling climbs in Tawonga South.

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Ranking 11th out of 20 cycling climbs in Mount Beauty.

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