North Fiordland, South Island, New Zealand

Loop of the Hollyford Track and Pyke - Big Bay Route: Alabaster Hut to Martin's Bay (Demon Trail) to Big Bay to the Pyke Valley to Alabaster Hut. Start and finish at any point on the loop. A complete circumnavigation of Skippers Mountain Range.  100km.

--submitted by George Brill
 

This route is a magnificent, sadistic 50km tour of Pittsburgh, PA’s most unique infrastructural feature: named staircase streets. These stairs from the city’s bygone era of steel and heavy industry were a way for workers living in neighborhoods in the cliffs and hills above the 3 rivers to commute directly down and back up. Many are now closed or decrepit but remain a gritty testament to Pittsburgh’s industrial roots. In the early days of GPS navigation, drivers would apparently get directed down roads only to dead-end at a staircase.

ROUTE REMOVED DUE TO PRIVATE LAND

It came to our attention that this route crossed private land at the Sundance Ski Resort.  We have therefore removed the route & will not record FKTs unless someone comes up with a version of the route that does not cross private land.