Posted on 04/30/2021 1:29:46 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
This bridge will take a toll on the faint of heart.
The views of rock-strewn mountains covered in lush greenery are spectacular from the 1693 foot crossing, but the see-through metal grid pathway that wobbles with every step might give many walkers pause.
The bridge traverses the fast moving River Paiva in the Arouca Geopark, suspended 574 feet above the water.
“I was a little afraid, but it was so worth it,” the Arouca resident said on the other side. “It was extraordinary, a unique experience, an adrenaline rush.”
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Yes, I was thinking, “...at least there are lots of parts to hold onto, should it start to break up....” HA
We moved right before I went to high school, and I had to walk across an interstate overpass each way, to get to and from school. We lived so close, that I would also go home and come back at lunchtime, too. That pretty much cured me of generalized fear of heights, but the see-through floor on this bridge might defeat me.
Wow. Very cool. Engineer must have been pretty creative.
Or Chinese.
My first thought was that I would love to go on that bridge!
My second thought was and you wonder why you have a son that loves to jump out planes?
Nice find!!!
Did you notice the walk-up access?
That’s a hike.
Wind and the anchors at each end.
One thing that really gives me the willies is walking across an open grate. The idea of being able to look through what I am walking on is too much.
—”and you wonder why you have a son that loves to jump out planes?”
Not much to wonder about, seeing as I too have jumped out of a few perfectly good aircraft.
Now it is mostly rock climbing , but his mother and I did that too and his sister did cell tower work up top and was a certified tower rescue instructor.
Now she does hospital computer work, Was probably safer on the towers, with lots of fresh air!
But tower workers lose time if any lightning is detected within a few hundred miles, they have to come down.
There is a nationwide lightning detection system to keep them informed.
—”One thing that really gives me the willies is walking across an open grate. The idea of being able to look through what I am walking on is too much.”
In farm country, they use open grates to keep the livestock inside the fence.
On my bicycle, they made me nervous, a few times I walked it.
Our dogs never liked them but would cross, but not on anything that moves in the slightest.
Looks like it would be fun on the down slope on a skate board.
Oh hell no
” the see-through floor on this bridge might defeat me.”
My first engineering job out of college was starting up new boilers. Lots of boilers are about 200 ft high and many of them use gratings for the floors all the way up. You get up to the top deck and look all the way down to the first concrete floor.
I bought my then-girlfriend to a plant to show her what I was doing for a living. We rode the elevator to the top floor, about 20 stories up, and the elevator door opened. She took one look at the grating floor and froze, said “Nope, I’m not getting out.” We took the elevator back down. It was funny because I thought nothing of the grating floor and didn’t realize it would make some people uncomfortable.
Looks like a giant jump rope.
Another “galloping gertie”?
—”Looks like it would be fun on the down slope on a skate board.”
I’d be thinking bicycle.
Skateboard wheels may not work well on the grate.
We did the hanging bridge in Vancouver. FUN! Loved it!
https://www.capbridge.com/
They have the long, way up high, swinging bride. The Cliff Walk, and the Tree Tops Hike. It was a blast! Similar in height, length, and fear factor of the one already posted here.
Have you ever visited the Kinsua Bridge Skywalk? It was, at one time of day, the highest and longest railway bridge in the world until it’s collapse during a tornado. It’s now a state park and attraction in NW Pennsylvania. The walkway extends out about 600 feet.
—”We did the hanging bridge in Vancouver.”
The night photos look like fun!
Looking at the historic photo, not so many worrywarts!
For curiosity sake, what is your main concern, do you think that wind may pose a problem?
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