Originally Posted by ed073
Yep....up to the pub that they tried to burn down in an insurance scam in the early 90s. Left to VFL Park (if you were a hard man and had done a trip over Mt Dandenong before racing on a Tuesday night) or straight to the city.
Which way did you normally go over the mountains (sorry to any Euros reading this: hill
)?
I usually went up the Ferntree Gully side, then straight back down. The first 5km of the Tourist Rd is killer.
I sometimes went the "back" way, through Bayswater, but it wasn't steep enough.