Ride up Olympus Mons 
That would be cool to have a small mountain at the top of the KOM, but the scale of the Zwift version would be way smaller speaking it’s about the size of AZ and it is 16 miles high (84.4K feet of elevation gain!!!)
Bring it on!
What’s the cDa on the descent?
What do you mean by “cDa”
The coefficient of aerodynamic drag. I’m thinking there could be some record speeds.
The Beginner ski hill and the Olympus Mons climb would be about the same average grade as the radio tower in Watopia: 12-13%, so no faster than that.
Mars has a super-thin atmosphere- thus cDa would be extremely small.
However, reduced gravity would act in opposite to that… going down would be slower, but uphill would be WAY faster 
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But atmospheric drag would be much lower.
It would just be Olympus Mons THEMED… but still on Earth as all Zwift maps are.
Yeah, I was aware of the lower gravity too. I wondered how much one would cancel out the other. As you say, uphills would be faster, assuming an oxygen supply didn’t add too much to the bike/rider weight.
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The reason I wasn’t going to do the actual Olympus Mons is because it’s too big and unrealistic to ride up a Arizona sized mountain on Zwift and simply… no one would do it! So it was just going to be a 2 mile STEEP CLIMB with a red rock surface for the path.
…but still on Earth, just resembling the mountain… NO difference in the gravity.
Another one that is quite vicious is in Innsbruck:
https://www.strava.com/segments/19002349
Maximum 25.7% and average 13.3%
The KOM holder got it on this ride:
7 loops of that evil hill. 
One way I was thinking of sharing maps could be to create an event in one of the user’s Zwift Clubs, there would be an option to post to events, then people could ride your world so it would be more social.
The MAIN reason why I want this is because (yes, I know we have 9, soon to be 10 guest worlds with Scotland in March and I’ve also ridden Scotland in events) in the 4 years I’ve done Zwift (Jan 2019-Feb 2023) I’ve ridden ALMOST ALL of the worlds on Zwift (I say ALMOST because with CRIT City and Bologna event only, although I have done CRIT City but haven’t gotten a chance to ride Bologna because there are few events with it and I just haven’t found a time) and it’s gotten boring doing the same routes over and over again and I’d like to be more creative other than custom workouts. Plus, I have all these ideas and would like to get myself into Zwift map making! I tried BKOOL and ROUVY but they just don’t have the same feel as Zwift and once you’ve ended a route, you’re done! I just want to stick with Zwift! Please consider this.
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