gutbuster

On our way out of Dunedin, we stopped by Baldwin Street, the steepest street in the world with an average gradient of 1:3.41, and the steepest section at 1:2.86…for all you engineers out there. After a few minutes of deliberation, we took poor Sunny up the hill – there wasn’t even any debate about us walking up! She just barely made it…it was one of the free adrenaline rushes to be found every now and then just a tiny bit off the beaten path in NZ. Going down was just as interesting as up, and turning around at the top probably takes top prize. Somehow Christina’s managed to pull the short straw on driving – the one-way rail/car bridge, the one-way one-kilometer unlighted rock tunnel in Milford Sound, Baldwin Street…

There’s a ‘gutbuster’ foot race up and down Baldwin Street every year. It’s not on my fairly lengthy NZ to-do list.