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Steep may mean different things to different people. Dan Proudman the journalist thought it was steep - a quick google of Dan Proudman might explain why he could have thought it a steep walk - no disrespect to Dan intended. Or maybe what he meant was it would be steep for a 3yr old, especially if he had asthma?
"If you take out the small dirt track off Benaroon Drive, which winds several hundred metres up to a cemetery where William's grandfather is buried, or another dirt track that meanders up another side of a ridge, the street is the only way in and out.
And the walk up both tracks is steep. Very steep."
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