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Scariest walkway in the world

Postby SuperstitionGuy » Feb 22 2011 1:49 am

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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby chumley » Feb 22 2011 8:05 am

That looks awesome. And the main lesson learned from this project? One word: rebar. :doh:
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby dround » Feb 22 2011 2:12 pm

WOW!!
Hike or canyoneering?
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby hippiepunkpirate » Feb 22 2011 3:51 pm

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have the nerves to film that while I was walking it
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby paulhubbard » Feb 22 2011 4:35 pm

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have the nerves to walk it! The first spot where you need to walk on the steel brace with nothing but air below you would be my turning around point.
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby Al_HikesAZ » Feb 22 2011 6:09 pm

paulhubbard wrote:I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have the nerves to walk it! The first spot where you need to walk on the steel brace with nothing but air below you would be my turning around point.

Clip in to the cable and wear Depends. When I see corpses or skeletons below me, that's my sign to turn back. I hear there are some sections of Mount Lushan that are like this, but wood. And the Chinese climb it in Tennis Shoes.
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby autumnstars » Feb 22 2011 9:46 pm

Gee, that looks safe!
Never thought I had a fear of heights before...
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby davis2001r6 » Feb 25 2011 4:42 am

If I were a little closer to Spain and it were still open I would be all over that. As it is some Via Ferreta routes in Italy are sketchy enough.
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby mnlumberjack » Mar 12 2011 1:05 pm

My knees are shaking and I'm sitting in front of my laptop. :scared:
I did a little research on the subject and found this one in Zion National Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0hkc9dIfNU :o
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby kingsnake » Mar 12 2011 4:10 pm

I wish my plane flights were that empty. Usually they are cramming people into overhead bins ...
Is there anything out there, or is it just more of the same?
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby maxpower » Mar 14 2011 8:10 am

First I'd have to develop a pretty close friendship with the guy that attached the cables to the rock wall. I'm supposing OSHA has not visited this site? :D
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby Alston Neal » Mar 14 2011 11:00 am

Walking that is no big deal.

Now building it, that's where the huevos kick in.
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby kevinweitzel75 » May 30 2011 11:37 am

Just read the guy who filmed this, Daniel Ahnen, died while climbing Everest on March 2, 2011.
http://hazardouspioneers.blogspot.com/2 ... ining.html
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby azbackpackr » May 30 2011 3:37 pm

Gee, that's really sad! Sorry to hear about it.
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby Kwai Chang » May 30 2011 7:28 pm

OK - as crazy as that was think about some of those washed out sections on NK - the drop off and exposure were pretty wild too. I was kinda shocked at some of those!! But I agree - when I would have to start walking along those iron bars - uhhhh nope - I am a wuss and I am turning right around.

I do look forward to Angels Landing tho...... :D
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby Al_HikesAZ » May 30 2011 8:14 pm

Kwai Chang wrote:those washed out sections on NK - t:D
what washed out sections? I haven't been there since October, but everything seemed copasetic to me. Now Nanko or Royal Arch - not washed out cause they were never there in the first place :sl:
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby Kwai Chang » May 31 2011 8:07 pm

what washed out sections? I haven't been there since October, but everything seemed copasetic to me. Now Nanko or Royal Arch - not washed out cause they were never there in the first place :sl:


OK - being a newbie maybe they weren't so bad after all - they were def cool - buy also kinda scary tho!!! Sooooo looking forward to leaving the corridor trails and trying out the MULE FREE trails!!!

Need more time!!!! Dang JOB!
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby azbackpackr » May 31 2011 8:50 pm

Get rid of the job, live in your car, become a backpacking bum.... ;)
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby SuperstitionGuy » May 31 2011 10:33 pm

azbackpackr wrote:Get rid of the job, live in your car, become a backpacking bum.... ;)

HAZBB for short? :sl:
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Re: Scariest walkway in the world

Postby paulhubbard » Jun 01 2011 6:50 am

I'm thinking this would go under the "Climbing" category. Don't watch if you're afraid of heights!
http://www.flixxy.com/tower-climbing.htm
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