Bad ideas
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Climb Stats
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| Climb category | Cat. 4 |
| Distance | 5.78 km / 3.59 miles |
| Elevation gain | 102.6 m / 337 ft |
| Average gradient | 1.8% |
| Maximum gradient | 25% |
| Elevation high | 270.2 m / 886 ft |
| Elevation low | 163.4 m / 536 ft |
| Climb difficulty score | 10,288.4 |
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Climb Rank
How does this climb compare against every other climb in the world?
🗺 This climb ranks 551,170th out of 2,710,648 worldwide cycling climbs. |
🧮 Ranked as the 43,422nd most difficult cycling climb of all 337,249 climbs in United States. |
📉 Places 230th out of 11,742 cycling climbs in Texas. |
⚖ Ranks 79th out of 2,321 cycling climbs in Travis County. |
⚖ Ranking 71st out of 1,809 cycling climbs in Austin. |
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