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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.
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| LATEST VERSION |
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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.
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| PLATFORMS |
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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
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| COST |
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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.
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Keith Vetter
457 N Granger St
Granville, OH 43023
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| DOWNLOAD AND INSTALLATION |
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For Windows user click here.
For Unix or Macintosh users or if you want the source, click
here.
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| ADDITIONAL ZONES AND REGIONS |
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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.
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| LICENSE INFORMATION |
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KLIMB's license is basically a BSD type license, but
click here for complete license information.
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