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Dingus Milktoast

Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 8, 2011 - 09:11am PT



DMT
Peter Haan

Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
Nov 8, 2011 - 09:26am PT
A lot more interesting than the new iteration we are building from Oakland to Yerba Buena (to SF).
the Fet

climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
Nov 8, 2011 - 10:28am PT
Don't fire unti you see their whitewalls.

Bunker Hill memorial bridge.

Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Nov 8, 2011 - 01:51pm PT

Everything old is new again.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Nov 8, 2011 - 02:38pm PT
I liked this one going up to Torres del Paine... Just a tad bouncy. :-)


This is the Bridge to Funkness!
mstearns

climber
CA
Nov 8, 2011 - 03:46pm PT
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.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Nov 8, 2011 - 05:26pm PT
Dingus, that last one is great. We've got three covered bridges here in town, I'll have to take some pictures.
steelmnkey

climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
Nov 8, 2011 - 05:36pm PT
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...


Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
Nov 8, 2011 - 05:37pm PT


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.
TKingsbury

Trad climber
MT
Nov 8, 2011 - 06:01pm PT
The series 'Human Planet' had a section on 'living bridges'....pretty damn cool.

start @ ~43:20...or watch the whole thing...I won't stop ya.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DvhNdV7qic

short lower quality clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCnDj39EaVE
Timmc

climber
BC
Nov 8, 2011 - 06:07pm PT
Rural PA after the floods
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Timmc

climber
BC
Nov 8, 2011 - 06:24pm PT
Gunkie

Trad climber
East Coast US
Nov 8, 2011 - 06:29pm PT
My 10k and longer runs take me across this bridge. It's a walk-over only bridge across the Delaware River.


Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Nov 8, 2011 - 06:32pm PT
That bridge in Dublin is amazing! Certainly poetic, although somewhat extravagant.
crunch

Social climber
CO
Nov 8, 2011 - 06:32pm PT
drljefe

climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
Nov 8, 2011 - 07:07pm PT
I saw Jeff Bridges on Austin City Limits.
That dude's cool.
Mighty Hiker

climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Nov 8, 2011 - 07:40pm PT
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
The Larry

climber
Moab, UT
Nov 8, 2011 - 07:53pm PT
The Dewey Bridge after its demise.

F'ueco

Boulder climber
Sunnyvale, CA
Nov 8, 2011 - 07:58pm PT
Chaz

Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
Nov 8, 2011 - 08:02pm PT
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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