After a few easy kilometers, the climb goes to over 9% average for the last 3.5 km's, with 15% on the last few serpentines near the summit. I've had a near miss with a blood-thirsty dog at the very last meter of the climb (at 1811 alt. m), which made me realise the whole idea of riding alone on closed mountain roads with no mobile phone signal reception wasn't really a bright one!