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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 8, 2011 - 09:11am PT
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DMT
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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A lot more interesting than the new iteration we are building from Oakland to Yerba Buena (to SF).
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Don't fire unti you see their whitewalls.
Bunker Hill memorial bridge.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Everything old is new again.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I liked this one going up to Torres del Paine... Just a tad bouncy. :-)
This is the Bridge to Funkness!
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mstearns
climber
CA
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This is the opposite of modern.
Some random side valley, Pamir, Tajikistan
On the Afghan side of the Panj river. Taken from the Tajik side.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Dingus, that last one is great. We've got three covered bridges here in town, I'll have to take some pictures.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Sort of a bridge at the Tennessee Aquarium in Chattanooga...
Swinging bridge you cross hiking into the Foster Falls climbing area west of Chattanooga.
And a couple of the somewhat famous bridges of Madison County...
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Can there ever have been a more appropriate memorial to a writer than the new Samuel Beckett bridge that opened in Dublin on 10 December? The several thousand tons of steel deck and pylon were fabricated in a factory in Rotterdam, then carried across the sea by a barge labouring in the churning swell. A stately bridge carried over the turbulent water by a boat?
The designer was Santiago Calatrava, the Valencian architect who has made expressionist bridges and weirdly torqued structures a trademark. Never mind that Beckett made a virtue of muted understatement. The writer once said "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness". Calatrava does not think that way. He's in the landmark business.
This is Calatrava's second bridge in Dublin – the first was dedicated to James Joyce and opened in 2003. The new Beckett Bridge is technically interesting: the structure is cable-stayed from a 40-metre pylon. The span across the Liffey is 124m and carries two lanes of motor traffic, one of cycles and one of Godots. Trains may come later. Hydraulic apparatus allows the bridge to swing through 90 degrees in the horizontal plane to allow ships to pass.
Artistically, it is more interesting still. Calatrava has ignored the temptation to use ForEx traders, race-horse owners and other Celtic tigers as a source of inspiration. Instead, he has been inspired by Guinness's traditional harp: the tensioned cables are, he says, to be seen as strings. It reminds me of what Beckett said about Dublin university containing the cream of Ireland: rich and thick.
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Timmc
climber
BC
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Rural PA after the floods
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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My 10k and longer runs take me across this bridge. It's a walk-over only bridge across the Delaware River.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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That bridge in Dublin is amazing! Certainly poetic, although somewhat extravagant.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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I saw Jeff Bridges on Austin City Limits.
That dude's cool.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Atlanterhavsveien on the coast of Norway, connecting Kristiansund and Molde, is pretty amazing. Hopping from island to skerry to island for 8 km, more in the ocean than on land. Bridges, tunnels and other neat stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlanterhavsveien
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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The Dewey Bridge after its demise.
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F'ueco
Boulder climber
Sunnyvale, CA
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Swinging railroad bridge over the Swinomish Channel ( that's salt water ).
A few minutes after this shot was taken, the kite and camera crash-landed in the water - about halfway between the bridge and the barge - when the kite fell apart. The camera is fine ( Pentax Optio W80 ) with the dunking, but everything else electric ( radio receiver, 3 servos, and a battery ) was shot. I always wondered what would happen if I crashed in the water.
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