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La Balme

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Route de Chamoule, La Balme, Mont-Saxonnex, Bonneville, Upper Savoy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Metropolitan France, 74130, France
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Climb Profile

Altitude builds left to right while colour shows gradient severity for each part of La Balme.

710 m755 m805 m850 m3.0% from 0 m to 7 m6.5% from 7 m to 13 m3.7% from 13 m to 18 m8.3% from 18 m to 23 m13.6% from 23 m to 27 m12.8% from 27 m to 32 m10.0% from 32 m to 38 m11.1% from 38 m to 44 m7.8% from 44 m to 49 m8.7% from 49 m to 53 m8.3% from 53 m to 58 m8.2% from 58 m to 63 m12.2% from 63 m to 68 m8.5% from 68 m to 73 m13.6% from 73 m to 77 m14.3% from 77 m to 81 m18.6% from 81 m to 85 m17.6% from 85 m to 89 m8.9% from 89 m to 93 m4.3% from 93 m to 98 m4.3% from 98 m to 103 m4.2% from 103 m to 107 m8.2% from 107 m to 112 m4.4% from 112 m to 117 m13.3% from 117 m to 121 m8.9% from 121 m to 126 m14.0% from 126 m to 130 m10.0% from 130 m to 134 m10.5% from 134 m to 138 m5.4% from 138 m to 142 m5.4% from 142 m to 145 m10.5% from 145 m to 149 m10.8% from 149 m to 153 m11.1% from 153 m to 156 m11.4% from 156 m to 160 m11.1% from 160 m to 163 m5.7% from 163 m to 167 m11.8% from 167 m to 170 m10.8% from 170 m to 174 m11.1% from 174 m to 178 m16.7% from 178 m to 181 m11.8% from 181 m 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Climb Stats

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Climb categoryCategory 4
Distance1.43 km / 0.89 miles
Elevation gain136.6 m / 448 ft
Average gradient9.6%
Maximum gradient16.1%
Elevation high847.8 m / 2,781 ft
Elevation low711.2 m / 2,333 ft
Climb difficulty score13,660.22

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Climb Rank

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This climb ranks 383,749th out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

🧮

Ranked as the 47,281st most difficult cycling climb of all 342,105 climbs in France.

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Places 18,901st out of 68,974 cycling climbs in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.

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Ranks 3,157th out of 9,022 cycling climbs in Upper Savoy.

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A local climb of note, this is the 8th most difficult cycling climb (out of 23 climbs) in Mont-Saxonnex.

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