Last Of The Climbs in Cannobio

Italy · Lake Maggiore · Val Cannobina

Short, brutal, and by Kevin’s own account the hardest of the trip.

Ridden 24 August 2019 — the shortest of the Cannobio climbs, but the one with its own name in the ride log, and a Saltire flag at the top marking the occasion.

Route data (from Strava): 18.0km, 558m of climbing, max grade 46.7% — short compared to the others, but concentrated: nearly 560m of climbing in 18km.

The route, from Kevin's own GPS track

Real GPS route map of this ride from Cannobio — The actual recorded route, plotted from Kevin's own Strava GPX/FIT data onto a real OpenStreetMap base.

A beer on a café table overlooking the mountains near Cannobio after a ride — A cold Peroni at a café table with the valley laid out below — the reward at the end of this one.

View over the mountain valley near Cannobio in evening light — Late-light valley view from this ride.

Narrow street through a small village in the hills above Cannobio — One of the hill villages on this route.

River gorge and waterfall in the Cannobino Valley near Cannobio — The Cannobino river gorge, visible from the climb.

The actual Strava app screenshot from this ride — kept alongside the rebuilt map above for comparison.

Sign reading Arrivederci Scotland Goodbye The Last Climb with a Saltire flag, on a route near Cannobio — "Arrivederci Scotland — The Last Climb" — a Saltire on the way out after what the ride log calls, without much room for argument, "an absolute killer."

📝 Kevin — needs your input

Confirm this is genuinely the hardest of the Cannobio climbs, as the name suggests
Which climb exactly does the church + restaurant belong to — is it this one?