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  WELCOME TO THE KLIMB BIKE MAPPING WEB SITE

 
new Death Ride Zone This zone covers the roads ridden in the Death Ride (aka Tour of the California Alps) from Carson and Luther Passes to both sides of Monitor Pass and south to Ebbetts Pass and Pacific Crest. In August, 2009 this zone has been expanded.
  • To the south it includes Sonora Pass with its spectacular scenery and epic pitches of up to 26% gradient.
  • To the east it includes Bridgeport and the area north to Wellington--the site of one of my favorite century rides.
White Mountains of Arizona. A zone for a trip I took this spring in the mountains northeast of Phoenix.

Sonoma County Zone covering the California county north of San Francisco. Not a fully completed zone but covers many of the classic rides and epic climbs found there including the Terrible Two double Century.

KLIMB is program which allows you to plan bike routes interactively on topographical maps of the San Francisco Bay Area, Central Ohio and other areas. You create a route by clicking on nodes marking key intersections or on the roads between the nodes. As you are building the route, it connstantly displays the total distance and climbing. At any time, with a press of the button, you can get:
  • Distance and altitude profile
  • Turn by turn detailed description of the route
  • Zoomed in maps
  • A 3-dimension plot of the route
  • Add annotations to the map
  • Print out the map and route
  • Keep a log of a ride
  • Export the route to a GPS device
  • Import tracks from a GPS device
  • View the road or node on Google maps

KLIMB was originally based on Bill Bushnell's excellent San Francisco Bay Area Altitude/Distance Biking Graph. Later, additional zones were added including central Ohio, a mountain biking version centered on Mt Tamalpais, and even a hiking version showing several East Bay parks.

  LATEST VERSION

The latest version, 4.30, was released in June, 2009. New features since 4.0 include route atlas, favorites, pdf support, route arrows, start and end icons, gradient computation, email support, web update of nodes and favorites, and more. The what's new page has more details.

See the beta page for the cutting edge release.

Note, the printing feature is disabled by default. I'm inviting you to help make KLIMB a better program, and in return I'll send you the key to unlock and enable printing. See the printing page for details.

  PLATFORMS

Since KLIMB is written using tcl/tk, it should run on almost all platforms.
 • Windows: yes
 • Unix: yes
 • Macintosh OS X: yes, here are some release notes

  COST

FREE. That's right, KLIMB is freeware. If you'd like to make a donation to help cover the operating expenses and to support further development, you can do so through PayPal or you can send payment via the mail.

Keith Vetter
457 N Granger St
Granville, OH 43023


  DOWNLOAD AND INSTALLATION

For Windows user click here.
For Unix or Macintosh users or if you want the source, click here.

  ADDITIONAL ZONES AND REGIONS

KLIMB is available for a growing range of zones and regions making it much to big to download as one file. The Zone Page has a list of all available zones and regions, and to download what you

Myself and some others are actively creating new zones. If you'd like to create a KLIMB zone for your area click here are some instructions. Also, let me know and I'll be happy to help.

  LICENSE INFORMATION

KLIMB's license is basically a BSD type license, but click here for complete license information.

Home ©2009 Keith Vetter
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