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BooDawg
Social climber
Butterfly Town
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Pohono Trail bridge across Bridalveil Creek.
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fgw
climber
portland, or
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Oct 26, 2012 - 05:03pm PT
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Oregon
Meteora
Washington (not too thrilled...)
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Eric Beck
Sport climber
Bishop, California
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Oct 26, 2012 - 07:33pm PT
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Isn't there a new Port Mann bridge in Vancouver?
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Oct 26, 2012 - 08:16pm PT
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Lions' Gate (First Narrows) bridge, joining Vancouver to points north, is also rather interesting, if only because it was the first major suspension bridge in the world to have its deck replaced while it continued in use. In 2000 - 02, they replaced the deck a segment at a time - one segment every few days. A considerable engineering feat, given that they had to maintain tension/compression throughout.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_Gate_Bridge
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Oct 26, 2012 - 08:27pm PT
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Plaidman
Trad climber
South Slope of Mt. Tabor, Portland, Oregon, USA
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Oct 26, 2012 - 10:46pm PT
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I like it here. If you didn't know, I will tell you that Portland is where young people go to retire.
The Dream of the 90s is alive in Portland:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Oct 26, 2012 - 11:33pm PT
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Some Bridges in Nepal
A standard suspension bridge. When the boards rot through,
people place heavy rocks on what's left of the old boards to cover the holes.
Sometimes these modern bridges go into the river during earthquakes.
Bamboo is wonderful for construction. Needless to say, this high and dry was observed in winter.
Things get a lot more challenging during the monsoon.
And finally, the most ingenious one of all.
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perswig
climber
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Yowza, indeed. Some stunning arches in that post.
Rail pivot-trestle, outside Portland, ME.
Swinging bridge north of Brunswick, ME.
Dale
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Not really a bridge but pretty amazing structure:
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BASE104
Social climber
An Oil Field
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Guido's toughest link bridge is unreal.
I loved it when one hay truck went down and another right behind it. Couldn't that dude see?
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Burnt bridge in front of me.
I crossed, rather than swim the stream, and had my--
burned bridge behind me.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Check out this page: http://travel.yahoo.com/ideas/world-s-strangest-bridges.html
I tried to pull pics into this thread from the above page, but it won't let me, go to the link above some really cool bridges.
London Bridge:
Medieval
19th Century
19th Century moved to Lake Havasu AZ
And the new London Bridge is... boring
Not the London Bridge. But just downstream.
Some of my favorites:
Foresthill. Good for 700 foot bungee jumps.
What it would have looked like with the Auburn Dam.
Yankee Jims
A new one in China
Different safety standards in China...
A good site I just found: http://highestbridges.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 20, 2012 - 11:01pm PT
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This old Diestelhorst Bridge was built in 1915 and is 639 feet long.
It was the first automobile bridge over the Sacramento River in Northern California.
Named for the man who owned the land.We used to have family birthdays, picnics and Fourth of July down at Lake Redding Park, fireworks off of one of these low spans. I remember the RR bridge, the SP tracks you see, they always fascinated me, so high, so climbable. Mom wrote in my baby book that I climbed and jumped all the time, she had to watch me like a hawk when we went to the park.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Dec 21, 2012 - 12:42am PT
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
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Dec 21, 2012 - 01:24am PT
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Rainer entrance station
and somewhere above Skokomish...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Dec 21, 2012 - 02:56am PT
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Is there a shot posted of the Briceburg Bridge?
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