You did? Are you secretly a mountain goat posing as a person? When you talk about the kids I didn't think you were being so literal.
Hahaha, I can promise you here and now that I will never, ever, ever run up something like this just for fun. It's all for a purpose and I totally wouldn't do this if I didn't have to. My guts churn at the thought of sprinting up a volcano.
LoL! XD
Well I wouldn't sprint up the hills either XD Nobody I've seen sprints up, they're either jogging or walking or if they were jogging they're sometimes walking at a certain point because the hill climbs are pretty hard work XD
If you can make out the angle of the roads coming down the hill, that's about what we're dealing with on a daily basis XD There's another shortcut that goes straight down from the top of the hill past the small collection of buildings at the top, past the water tank in the middle, which spat you out near the red buildings at the bottom; I don't know how many if any people use it now, but we weren't technically supposed to back then either, just everyone did XD
Not far from where the photo was taken is a similarly pitched jungle track that comes out near the museum which is not far from the beach in the bottom right.
Oh wow. Everyone there must have had the calves of Hercules! It looks so steep and so far... In Melbourne there is a spot called Thousand Steps which is kind of in a beautiful rain-foresty type area... and it gets so many fitness types and tourists and it is so crazy deathly steep. I miss that guy... but he was an hour away from us in Melbs and my driveway is right here. Like I can see it now...
Well depends on whether they were the types that would walk/run/ride their nearest hill every day ;D Most sensible people drive (because steep hills are steep and tiring!) and you'd only walk as a mode of transport if you were a fitness buff/liked walking/didn't have your license/a car/people that could drive you.
Even when I go back we'll be out going somewhere and we'll see this random car parked out on the side of the road somewhere because the driver has gone to that particular hill and are now going for their daily exercise which is a walk/run up/down the hill away from the car and then back again.
I was definitely a lot fitter when I was living there than here anyway and not just because I was a reasonably active kid once XD
Hahaha, cars kill everyone's fitness. I was a monster when I had to ride my bike everywhere... even up the crazy hills.
I thought the same about Wellington, everyone must be so fit just walking up that hill all the time.