I think you may have a point, I also think the total climb metric is loosing information with regards to the difficulty. Maximum altitude difference has the sa

I think you may have a point, I also think the total climb metric is loosing information with regards to the difficulty. Maximum altitude difference has the same issue IMHO. Maybe related to the [coastline paradox](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox)