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The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 24, 2017 - 12:57pm PT
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Brandon-
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The Granite State.
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Apr 24, 2017 - 02:12pm PT
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I like this one because, well, that's my house in the foreground.
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Apr 24, 2017 - 04:09pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 11, 2017 - 04:47pm PT
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Reilly
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The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 12, 2017 - 07:52am PT
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All I can say is Omar must have thought 54 virgins were awaiting him on the other side!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 12, 2017 - 12:34pm PT
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Brandon-
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The Granite State.
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May 12, 2017 - 02:18pm PT
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That's not a dozer, it's a grader.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 19, 2017 - 07:23pm PT
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Two pics by DMT I liked from another thread, Merced River Photography Plan.
Click on "Merced Falls."
http://yosemitevalleyrailroad.com/LOGGING.COMPANIES/YosemiteLumber.html
These are utilitarian bridges, lacking much in the way of cool but for the fact that they are on the Merced River.
Now this one's got some old school cool. Photo taken from the downstream side of the bridge on the south bank.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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May 19, 2017 - 08:24pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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May 20, 2017 - 10:15am PT
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The Clifton Suspension Bridge over the Avon River near Bristol, England. Originally planned to be built in 1831 by Isambard Brunel, the engineering genius of the century, the Bristol Riots caused a lengthy postponement further lengthened by Brunel's death and design changes. Finished in 1864 the original structural elements are still extant and for a quid you can drive across it, just not in yer lorry. ;-)
In 1885, a 22-year-old woman named Sarah Ann Henley survived a suicide attempt off the bridge when her billowing skirts acted as a parachute and she landed in the thick mud banks of the tidal River Avon at low tide; she subsequently lived into her eighties.
In 1957 a Filton-based RAF Vampire jet from 501 Squadron piloted by Flying officer John Greenwood flew under the deck while performing a victory roll before crashing in Leigh Woods, killing the pilot. The accident caused a landslip that led to the temporary closure of the nearby Bristol to Portishead railway line.
On 12 February 2014 the bridge was closed to traffic due to wind for the first time in living memory.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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May 20, 2017 - 02:41pm PT
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For about a decade and a half following the end of the
Second World War, British rock climbing was dominated by Joe
Brown and Don Whillans and their compatriots in the
Manchester Rock and Ice Club. Such was the unprecedented
severity of this group's climbs, and especially those of
Brown, that they immediately took on an aura of
impregnability. But, in the late 1950s, Hugh Banner
spearheaded a new generation which came to sweep away the
mythical reputation of the Rock and Ice Club and begin a
surge forward to even harder climbs. "There were few
climbers who were quite as daring as Banner," thought the
climbing historian Trevor Jones.
Banner, like Brown and the Rock and Ice men, was a
Lancastrian, but began his outstanding climbing career while
studying chemistry at Bristol University in the early 1950s.
Here he was one of the pioneers of the strenuous, fingery
climbing on the forbiddingly steep limestone of Avon Gorge.
Bold, extreme climbs such as Great Central Route and the
aptly named Desperation, climbed in 1953, epitomised
Banner's vision in opening up lines on a formidable cliff
few had dared to consider seriously as a climbing ground.
--The Independent / 05 May 2007 / Colin Wells
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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there's two bridges there, one behind the other
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Esparza
Trad climber
Westminster, CA
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Capt.
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some eastside hovel
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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The Menai Straits Bridge - completed in 1823! Designed by Thomas Telford who was born penniless in Scotland and was apprenticed to a mason. Through incredible drive he was completely self-taught. He never attended a day of formal school! His list of major engineering accomplishments is unsurpassed in the 19th or any century.
An honor to drive across it!
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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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