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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Mouse, you know I can't fool you!
This one is cool from this angle.
From this angle it is even cooler as you can see it is holding up the whole
damn main piazza!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 26, 2014 - 11:46am PT
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Hey, DMT, Santa brought me yer present by mistake!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Ponte dell'Accademia - one of the four bridges over the Grand Canal. It is the one nearest the
lagoon at the south end and the only wooden one.
Wiki:
First suggested as early as 1488,[citation needed] a bridge was not constructed until 1854. The original steel structure, designed by Alfred Neville, was demolished and replaced by a wooden bridge designed by Eugenio Miozzi and opened in 1933,[2] despite widespread hopes for a stone bridge.[citation needed] The second bridge, in a dangerous condition, was razed and replaced by the present bridge, of identical construction, in 1985. As of 2011, a replacement bridge is under discussion.[3]
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Got a tour of the St. Croix River Bridge under construction last spring, amazing project.....a cool bridge in the making:
The completed project will look like this:
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Charlie, wazzup with that thang? Is it just sos those U Pee'ers can go to
Kanada to buy their cheap meds?
Proper use of a bridge:
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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DMT, that tunnel of love has to be some sort of aqueduct, n'est ce pas?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa
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Banquo
climber
Amerricka
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Taken a couple weeks ago on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica. We rented a 4wd Rav4 and drove everywhere. This bridge is some big logs decked with rough planking. On top of the planking are some flat wise steel beams whose purpose seems to be to hold the gravel in place. It is just wide enough for the Rav4 to barely fit. Larger vehicles ford on the far side of the bridge.
Most of the river crossings we encountered don't have bridges and I had to resort to wading the rivers to the check the depth before plowing across in out little car.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 19, 2015 - 02:38pm PT
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Late fifties. Nana & Grandad had this place in Auburn they'd rented.
He worked out on the ridge to the right of the Foresthill bridge.
My older brother and I rode across it with Nana to go out to the construction site where Leonard drove a Cat or a Sheep's Foot, I forget.
That's a good shot of the old road into the canyon, Dingus.
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Sula
Trad climber
Pennsylvania
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Jan 19, 2015 - 04:03pm PT
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Over 400 posts without a photo of the Pont du Gard.
Around 2000 years old and still looking quite sound. Some very appealing stone, though bouldering frowned on.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Oregon
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Jan 20, 2015 - 11:13am PT
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One of the coolest to my mind is Portland's steel bridge.
It's the second oldest vertical lift bridge in N America (1912- the oldest is the Hawthorne bridge, about a mile away) and it's a double decker.
The lower span services the rail traffic from the South and East into Union station ( it is owned by UP) and has a pedestrian/bike path tacked on the side about 10 years ago which you can see people on in the picture above.
The upper span handles car traffic, light rail, bus, and other bike/pedestrian paths linking the Lloyd district with Chinatown.
The bridge spans can be raised independently, depending on how tall the river traffic is.
With both spans open, destroyers and cruisers can make it into downtown for fleet week during the Rose festival.
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axlgrease
Mountain climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jan 22, 2015 - 05:51pm PT
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mongrel
Trad climber
Truckee, CA
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Jan 25, 2015 - 06:20pm PT
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When this thread first appeared, my immediate thought was, I've got to find that picture of the fig-root bridge in northern India. Took a while, but here it is:
Very clever use of two strangling figs; the original green technology!
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Jan 29, 2015 - 07:44am PT
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gaviota
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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QITNL--took the elevator up to the top of S Tower in the mid-70s.
Boring ride to the summit.
Shocking exposure on stepping out of the box (big enough for three/four max. it seemed).
Almost clear day so we could see Mt. Diablo plain as day--come to think, it was day.
Last week my partner Jeff showed and we cruised up to the Tuolumne bridges in Modesto...I had not ever crossed via the Lion Bridge, which is Seventh St., and connects to River Road, which leads out to...Waterford.
At Waterford is another Tuolumne River span. It proceeds south, crossing the Stan several miles below Hickman. Then one comes to the Merced a bit further south.
We had already come north over the same rivers on the 99.
Here's one of the Lion Bridge from earlier in this thread.Once on River Road, it's a blight-ridden area you ride through--honestly, it's not aesthetic in the least.
Then you come to H2O-ford and it's a clear shot south over the previously mentioned route in some wide-open country, not too many orchards to obstruct the view.
Lastly, the bridge on this dashboard ukelele.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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It pays to know your customers, DMT. Or pretending to know them, which is not to say it's bad, because it's just a sales technique. N
No one really "knows" anyone.
Musical bridge.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I'll bet you listened to this on the stereo, or Walkman, going and coming.
One more for the road...at a rail crossing going to Waterford from the north end of the Tenth St. Bridge. Quaint little shack.
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