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perswig
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Jul 26, 2014 - 03:45am PT
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Forgot this one, up by Blue Hill.
Built to last.
Dale
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Jul 26, 2014 - 05:54am PT
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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The second shot is viewed from the bridge in the first shot.
This spot on the creek has two highway bridges and two RR bridges. When I was a boy in the sixties we knew the area downstream toward the Freeway 99 crossing was the HOBO JUNGLE!!!! Bogey men and rapists abounded there, we were told.
I'd set up my camera tripod on the RR bridge, shooting the sunset last night.
A man came up behind me in a friendly manner. He said that he had been cleaning up the debris washed against the bridge that day and for many days prior and he told me of his work. But he failed to tell me, and I did not think to ask, what he did with the trash.
His story included the turtles, and how they had to crawl out of the water and over the reef that was forming from all the trash build-up.
Then there was his story about a five pound bass some lucky bank fisherman had caught downstream last week.
There are no more salmon runs on Bear Creek, according to this denizen of the bamboo thickets. The man lives down there in the Jungles someplace, I'm assuming. His skin was scorched to the tone of Roger Brown's skin, the bolt replacement volunteer in the Ditch. He did not say and I did not ask.
He should know, I suppose, about the salmon, but I recall that in the early 80s I was able to see salmon running much further upstream in two spots that were very shallow out by the McKee bridge.
This set of bridges may not be "cool" but they are utilitarian in the extreme. The spur line gets quite a lot of traffic and served the steel drum plant where I slaved for ten years.
I had a lot of time to think about the number of bridges that we have here just on Bear Creek alone. It's quite an impediment to auto traffic, poor babies. If people got out and walked a bit more (who am I kidding?) they might not use their cars as much. Duh! And they might appreciate that every litter bit hurts and that someone has to pick it up.
See you at Facelift at the bridge?
MFM
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Tobia
Social climber
Denial
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7½-Ton Pontoon Bridge over Chattahoochee River, Ft. Benning, GA, July 1939
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Yaquina Bay Bridge, Newport, OR.
Another one of Conde McCullough's classics.
Like the pot of gold at the end of a rainbow, there's a brewery at the end of this bridge.
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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Mürren to Gimmelwald:
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Aug 14, 2014 - 08:57pm PT
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Rainbow Bridge ( seriously ), spanning the Swinomish Channel. It goes from LaConner Washington to the Indian Reservation on Fidalgo Island.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 16, 2014 - 02:45pm PT
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A very COLD Northside Drive bridge over Yosemite Creek.The casual observer may not see the second bridge in these two photos.
Another *yawn* old stone bridge.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Aug 22, 2014 - 03:22pm PT
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^Beauty, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ahem, the SF bay bridge
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Say Good Knight, Gracie and Tami.
That's two Lover's Leaps inside six weeks: in addition to the one below Echo Summit and this one, there is the one which Nut Again! soloed on the west side of Pacheco Pass...we should have a Leapfest.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 15, 2014 - 07:10am PT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Oct 15, 2014 - 09:25am PT
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Sydney harbour bridge
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I am Sam
Social climber
232' Above Sea Level
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Oct 15, 2014 - 11:27am PT
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Bridge inspection on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad a few weeks ago.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2014 - 07:30am PT
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Lets not quibble about size do you see the Hiking trail ,White blaze, vertical blue line Up, and over this is the other side the structure and the Re fix, the weight and age> It see's commuter Train traffic across the top and cars pass under at the same time. For the pedestrian Go figure. As a Risk Management Experts, Specialists In all thing bridge, do you have any opinion or do as we do; Try not to think to hard about crossing and hold our collective breath.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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Oct 25, 2014 - 12:34pm PT
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I can Neither Confirm or define The Thorough Extent to which the bridges has been inspected
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Oct 28, 2014 - 10:41am PT
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This one is just called 'old'...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Reilly the vecchio knows.
The Rio Bravo, right?!
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