Bächen
Bächen is a power-hike climb above Kappel in St. Gallen. The path is graded easy hiking: the effort is in your lungs, not your footing. Its steepest 500 metres run at 19.3% and come almost at once, before your legs have settled. At 4.3 TEP it sits around the middle of the catalogue. Expect 19 to 31 minutes. North-facing, so it holds shade and snow longer than the sunny side of the valley.
- TEP
- 4.3
- Climb
- +283 m
- Distance
- 1.8 km
- Average grade
- 15.7%
- Time
- 19 to 31 min
Climbs nearby
- Kappel E climb, 2.6 km at 11.5%, St. Gallen (same start)
- Ebnat-Kappel NE climb, 3.4 km at 16.6%, St. Gallen (1.7 km away)
- Kappel NE climb, 2.0 km at 15.4%, St. Gallen (1.7 km away)
- Ebnat N climb, 2.0 km at 12.2%, St. Gallen (1.7 km away)
- Ebnat NE climb, 1.9 km at 16.8%, St. Gallen (1.8 km away)
- Ebnat NW climb, 3.2 km at 15.1%, St. Gallen (2.1 km away)
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