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The Challenge, Dude
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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
No month meets all three rules below at this spot.
- J27°24°157
- F28°24°103
- M28°25°104
- A28°25°289
- M27°24°597
- J27°24°544
- J27°24°589
- A27°24°700
- S27°24°673
- O26°24°778
- N26°24°585
- D27°24°316
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Hard (6/10) (demanding_mountain_hiking (T3) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL))
- Mapped length
- 3.8 km · 2.4 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 3.4 km S of Quepos (Puntarenas Province) · GeoNames
- Country
- Costa Rica
- Region
- Puntarenas
- Continent
- North America
- Route type
- Local route
- SAC scale (OSM)
- demanding mountain hiking
- Local name
- El reto mae
- Route centre
- 9.4108, -84.1646
- Route start
- 9.4006, -84.1667
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 15879731
How it’s scored
Hard (6/10). Official rating: demanding_mountain_hiking (T3) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.