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Segment Hunter

Segment Hunter is for finding new places to ride. Drop the map anywhere on Earth and PeakLine pulls every public Strava segment in view, with filters that let you ask very specific questions: "What HC climbs are within 30 km of here?" or "Where are the long flat sprint segments?"

How to use it

  1. Open Segment Hunter from the dashboard or the top nav.
  2. The map opens at your last viewed area, or your registered home location.
  3. Pan and zoom — segments matching your filters appear and disappear in real time.
  4. Click any segment marker for a quick popup (distance, gradient, type), or open the full Segment Analysis from the popup.

Loading is incremental: as you pan, only the new bounding-box delta is fetched, so a wide pan loads as fast as a small one.

Filters

The filter panel on the left lets you narrow down:

Sport type

  • Ride — cycling segments only.
  • Run — running segments only.
  • Both — everything.

Climb category

For ascending segments, filter by category:

  • HC (Hors Catégorie)
  • Cat 1
  • Cat 2
  • Cat 3
  • Cat 4
  • Uncategorized (flat, rolling, descending)

You can multi-select to grab "everything Cat 2 or harder," for example.

Distance

Minimum and maximum length sliders. Useful to skip the 200-m hill that everyone in town flagged and only see real climbs.

Elevation gain

Same idea, in meters. Set min = 500 m and you get only proper mountains.

Gradient

Average gradient range. Set 8–12% and you get the steep but ridable stuff; 12%+ and you get the walls.

Use cases

Travel planning. You're going to ride in a place you've never been. Open Segment Hunter centered on the city, filter for HC and Cat 1, and immediately you have a curated list of climbs to plan around.

Local discovery. You've ridden the same loop for two years. Try opening the map at an adjacent valley with the "≥10 km, ≥3% average" filter. You'll usually find one or two climbs you didn't know existed.

Race prep. Got a course profile from an event? Drop the map on each major climb and you can see exactly what you're up against.

Coaching. Send a client a link to a Hunter view: "Try one of these as your threshold target this week."

Guest mode

Without a Strava account, Hunter runs in demo mode: it shows a randomized sample of segments per region, not the full set. This is enough to get a feel for the tool but not enough to plan around. To unlock full search, sign in with Strava.

Tips

  • Use the satellite layer when filtering for trails — paved vs. gravel is often only visible from aerial imagery.
  • Star segments you might come back to. Starred segments show up in a separate filter and persist across sessions.
  • Combine with the Route Planner. Once you've found three climbs you want, switch to the Route Planner and string them into a route.

Limitations

  • Map density. In segment-dense cities (Brussels, Boulder, parts of LA) the marker cluster can get cluttered at low zoom. Zoom in one or two levels.
  • Rate limiting. If you pan very rapidly across many cities, Strava's API throttles the requests. You'll see a brief "loading…" pause; just wait a few seconds.
  • No private segments. Same caveat as Segment Analysis.

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