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Milltir Gerrig

5940.0 m · net rise 324.9 m · total ascent 337.2 m · overall 5.5% · confidence: good

Shape: sustained — 31% of the climbing sits in a quarter of the distance; longest continuous stretch at 10%+ is 207 m.

Matches: Wikipedia — Milltir Gerrig (Milltir Cerrig) — articles in English and Welsh; route passes 11 m from the pass point.

≈ Overhead cover (tree canopy or structures) spans 6% 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)32%4201–4203 munder overhead cover terrain reads 40.1% at 4302–4304 m across a structure — excluded
3 m (diagnostic)25%4200–4203 munder overhead cover terrain reads 47.1% at 4303–4306 m across a structure — excluded
5 m19%4198–4203 munder overhead cover terrain reads 29.6% at 4302–4307 m across a structure — excluded
10 m13%4193–4203 munder overhead cover terrain reads 21.0% at 4296–4306 m across a structure — excluded
20 m11.5%374–394 munder overhead cover terrain reads 13.2% at 4286–4306 m across a structure — excluded
25 m11.3%313–338 munder overhead cover terrain reads 11.6% at 4281–4306 m across a structure — excluded
50 m11.1%98–148 m
100 m11.1%96–196 munder overhead cover

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.

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Milltir Gerrig LiDAR hillshade map with contours

Profile

Milltir Gerrig elevation profile Milltir Gerrig rolling gradient profile

Provenance

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  "notes": "Coarse pass: max 11.6% over 200 m (Terrain 50), gain 295.2 m over 7234 m way. EXTENDED by graph walk: +1 segment(s) at base, +0 at top (stop: base=no_descending_continuation, top=no_ascending_continuation; min_avg=2.0%). Review before adopting. DEDUPE: absorbed 1 overlapping proposal(s): discovered-lane-52-8483-3-4321 ADOPTED (notable slice 2026-08-11): big-gain. AUTO-NAMED from gazetteer (hypothesis, unreviewed): was 'Discovered lane (52.8510, -3.4350)'.",
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