The Climb Print
Sa Calobra, hairpin by hairpin.
Sa Calobra, with the Serra de Tramuntana around it in contour lines: 9.7 km of the MA-2141 from the port at sea level up to the Coll dels Reis, with a profile beneath it coloured by the gradient of each kilometre.
From £19.95 unframed, £59.95 framed · Your own time on it, if you like.
What the print holds
Sa Calobra on paper
The climb begins at the top left of the map, at Port de Sa Calobra, and finishes at the bottom right, at the col. Between the two the road winds south and east up the mountainside in loops and hairpins, turning back on itself again and again across the contours.
Near the top it ties itself in a knot. That is the Nus de sa Corbata, "the tie knot", a 270-degree turn in which the road passes under itself, and on the print it shows as the line crossing its own path. The road was laid out by the engineer Antonio Parietti.
With the foot at sea level, two of the print's figures come out the same: 682 m gained, and 682 m at the top. The gradient builds over the first four kilometres, 5.4, 6.2, 7.7 and 7.7%, then drops back to 5.6% for the fifth. The sixth is the first to reach the 9–12% band of the key, at 9.1%, and the next three read 6.7, 7.0 and 5.2%. That last figure is the gentlest anywhere on the climb, and it comes straight before the hardest.
The final stretch is 670 m rather than a whole kilometre, and the print counts it as km 10. It rises at 11.7% into the col, which makes it the steepest part of the climb and the figure set in bold on the profile. Over all 9.7 km the average is 7.1%.
No block on this profile is coloured as lightly as the key's 0–3% or as heavily as its 12+. Every kilometre lies between 5.2 and 11.7%, so the colour moves back and forth through the three middle shades of the key all the way from the port to the col.
Sa Calobra, kilometre by kilometre
The gradient of every kilometre, as the profile on the print colours it: 9.7 km, 682 m gained, 7.1% on average, the steepest kilometre the tenth at 11.7%.
- 15.4%
- 26.2%
- 37.7%
- 47.7%
- 55.6%
- 69.1%
- 76.7%
- 87.0%
- 95.2%
- 10670 m11.7%
Three ways to draw Sa Calobra
The same road and the same profile each time, and every palette in the Studio on top of them.
How it works
From the Studio to your wall in three steps.
Step 01
Choose your subject
Connect Strava in one tap for a race, a ride or a whole year. Or search for a place, type a postcode for your street on the old Ordnance Survey, or add a photograph — none of those needs an account.
Step 02
Choose your style
Start from a finished design and make it yours: the words, the colours, the size. Twenty-three styles for your own miles, four treatments for a place, six layouts for a photograph, and the old survey as drawn or in your colours.
Step 03
We print and frame it
Pick a frame, check out, and it is printed to order on fine-art paper, framed by hand and posted to you, tracked.
Sa Calobra climb print: the questions
Why does the print start at the port?
The road down to Port de Sa Calobra is a dead end, so a ride there means descending it first and then climbing back up the same way. The print draws the second half of that ride, the climb, and its profile reads from left to right in the order the road is ridden uphill.
Why does it stop at the Coll dels Reis?
Because the col is where the road from the port stops climbing. Beyond it the MA-2141 runs on over gentler ground to meet the Ma-10, the road along the Serra, but that stretch is not part of the climb, and the profile ends where the hard work does.
What is the road like to ride?
Narrow, and in places it has no centre line. Because the road is a dead end, everyone who rides down to the port comes back up by the same narrow road, so on the descent there are riders climbing towards you.
Where do the road and the gradients come from?
The road is OpenStreetMap’s, as Overture Maps publishes it, traced from Port de Sa Calobra to Coll dels Reis. The heights are the Terrain Tiles Mapzen built and AWS Open Data hosts, read every ten metres along the road, with the foot set to sea level and the top to 682 m, the signposted heights; each kilometre’s gradient is measured on that line. Where the road runs through forest the elevation data can read a kilometre a point or so steeper or gentler than the tarmac, so the figure for a single kilometre is close rather than exact; the length, the height gained and the average are the climb’s.
Can I put my own time on it?
Yes. Type it in the Studio with the day you rode it, or bring in your Strava rides and choose the one: the Studio reads your time from the foot to the top off the track, rather than the whole ride. It sits in the corner of the print, where the other prints keep their statistics, and comes off again with one tap.
Can I have a climb that is not on this list?
Not as The Climb Print yet: each climb is traced from its road and checked against its published figures and its numbered bends before it is offered. Any mountain can be The Mountain Print, though, drawn in its own contour lines with the ride you recorded on Strava laid over it.
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Sa Calobra, on the wall.
Compose it free in the Studio: the treatment, the palette, your own words beneath and your time to the top in the corner. Order it when it is the climb you rode.
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