eKat
Trad climber
BITD3
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Dec 10, 2011 - 05:24pm PT
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It's quite simply remarkable. . . and Turtle Bay Exploration Park is really something. . . it's almost as if it put little Redding, CA on the map.
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NA_Kid
Big Wall climber
The Bear State
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Dec 10, 2011 - 05:37pm PT
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2011 - 06:57pm PT
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DMT
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 10, 2011 - 07:04pm PT
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DMT
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 10, 2011 - 07:18pm PT
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Same bridge, different skyline...
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Dec 10, 2011 - 07:27pm PT
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Aerial view of Atlanterhavsveien. To the right, the North Sea. Nothing but ocean until Iceland.
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mctwisted
Social climber
paradise
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Dec 10, 2011 - 08:28pm PT
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another cool thread from dingus, hey does anybody know if the new bridge by hoover dam is built yet? pics?
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JOEY.F
Gym climber
It's not rocket surgery
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Dec 10, 2011 - 08:35pm PT
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like button!
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hooblie
climber
from where the anecdotes roam
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Dec 11, 2011 - 04:31am PT
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here's the hoover dam bypass. unfortunately, with continuous security
sidewalls blocking any view, the drive across it is the most mundane imaginable
as with steelmonkey's pics upthread, the construction phase dazzled
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2011 - 09:12am PT
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I hear they're stringing the cables for the new Bay Bridge. Anyone got some pics?
Oh, here's the Tower Bridge in Old Sacramento:
Let's take a ride over the Tower Bridge?
Its an old school draw bridge, the road bed rising on both ends via elevator type mechanism located in the towers.
Painted gold after an exhaustive search for a new color, oh about 10 years back. Looks great in the sunset, looks like baby sh#t in the fog, though.
Its exquisite. Its right next to old Sacramento. Oh wait, what's that I see at the other end of the bridge?
That building sticking up?
Wow it looks great in this sunlight.
Its a straight shot over them bridge and then up the Mall. Back in the day this was the road coming from the Bay Area.
Gotta race down there before I lose the light.
But the traffic lights were not cooperating. Jealous, no doubt.
Closed for Christmas!
Well I got a lil gold, anyway.
DMT
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Marlow
Sport climber
OSLO
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Dec 27, 2011 - 09:33am PT
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Mighty Hiker has posted pictures from Atlantehavsveien before. I add some pictures from different weather conditions.
Dingus: The bridge fits very well into the landscape.
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2011 - 09:35am PT
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Wow Marlow for such an unobtrusive design that bridge is beautiful. I love her lines.
DMT
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dfrost7
climber
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Dec 27, 2011 - 09:57am PT
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I love this thread. I love bridges. I spent the 4th of july in Knights Ferry painting here. Thanks for all these amazing pics.
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2011 - 10:00am PT
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dfrost I've walked over that bridge a hundred times I bet. Used to boulder there a lot when I lived in Modesto. Still try to get there a couple times a year.
DMT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Dec 27, 2011 - 10:08am PT
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So I'm dismayed that no love has been shown Mssr Eiffel for his Garabit Viaduct
over the Truyère River. It was built 5 years before his less usefull tour.
Sadly, it was blown up in 1976:
Here's the video: Garabit Viaduct Demo
Mssr Eiffel is also well-known in Switzerland for designing the railway bridge
over the Birs River. It was built in 1875 and was one of his earlist designs.
Sadly, on 14 June 1891 it collapsed when a heavier-than-normal-train crossed
it killing 73 and badly injuring 171. The analysis "revealed that Euler's
formula for buckling, which had hitherto been used to calculate design
loads in such structures, needed to be corrected for slender bars." (Wiki)
Munchenstein Rail Disaster
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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Dec 27, 2011 - 10:12am PT
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Nuristan, Afghanistan.
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Jebus H Bomz
climber
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Dec 27, 2011 - 10:41am PT
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Nice shots of the Tower Bridge, Dingus. I've been over that one countless times. Prime gateway out of my home town is how I looked at it. I still think the new paint job is a POS, although the sidewalk widening is alright.
A cool corollary is I remember riding my bike at night across the Tower Bridge and regularly seeing the local Hmong kids climbing up in the beams over traffic! I finally figured out they were gathering eggs from the nesting pigeons up there. Those immigrants lived off the land!
My other escape tube out of West Sacramento ("Wessack"=correct pronunciation) was the I Street Bridge just north a little ways from the Tower Bridge. Mostly, via the lower level railroad tracks. Pretty cool spot to ride the bridge when the river boats pass through.
West Sac is getting a bit of the ol' gentrification nowadays. Nothing quite so character building though as getting mooned by a whore and her pockmarked ass as a young lad.
This bridge is purely functional:
Little Egypt bridge is cool because it only goes to climbing.
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argus
Trad climber
Vegas
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Dec 27, 2011 - 10:48am PT
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Here's the Hoover Dam Bypass from below.
Bridge Mountain in Red Rock.
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 27, 2011 - 11:21am PT
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A cool corollary is I remember riding my bike at night across the Tower Bridge and regularly seeing the local Hmong kids climbing up in the beams over traffic! I finally figured out they were gathering eggs from the nesting pigeons up there. Those immigrants lived off the land!
Thanks for that. Don't those Hmong kids know pigeons are flying RATS?
My other escape tube out of West Sacramento ("Wessack"=correct pronunciation) was the I Street Bridge just north a little ways from the Tower Bridge. Mostly, via the lower level railroad tracks. Pretty cool spot to ride the bridge when the river boats pass through.
I've always liked that bridge too, all rusty and work-aholic.
West Sac is getting a bit of the ol' gentrification nowadays. Nothing quite so character building though as getting mooned by a whore and her pockmarked ass as a young lad.
Wessac can use the gentrification imo, though yes, getting the pock eyed moon from a Jefferson St. ho is the dreams upon which Wessac was built.
Its Yolo county's best city! (move over Davis, ya college town pussies!)
DMT
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