#bridgeday — Public Fediverse posts
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Happy #BridgeDay, for those observing it!
(in Germany, we call the day wedged between a holiday, like yesterday, and the weekend, a #BrückenTag)
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3/5 🔥 INFRASTRUCTURE DOCTRINE: Donald Trump is already turning up the heat. He’s calling for a total systemic dismantle of the adversary's grid. We're talking about his "Infrastructure Days" doctrine: "Power Plant Day" and "Bridge Day" are on the calendar if the Strait of Hormuz doesn't open immediately. 🏗️⚡
#Trump #Iran #PowerPlantDay #BridgeDay #StraitOfHormuz #EnergySecurity #ForeignPolicy -
Happy #Friday to those fellow Hungarians, who also work today. Today it's the May 2., a Friday. It was a #BridgeDay after May 1., creating a #LongWeekend that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_weekend
Well, it's actually Saturday, and we work today to make that long weekend possible.
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A few more #bridgeday action photos.
These were all taken with a Nikon DX format camera (APS-C sized sensor, 18x24mm) using a Ukrainian Telear 250mm lens made to cover 6x6cm format, and then cropped a fair bit from there. I always knew that my Soviet lenses were better than they had a right to be.
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Twenty years ago, @mbroome and I joined our rope team, Extreme Rappels, for our first Bridge Day rappel (https://bridgedayrappel.com/). We've since gone on to longer and deeper drops - Fantastic! Golondrinas! El Cap! - but we keep heading back to WV almost every year to free rappel 850 feet to the river's edge below.
Rain or shine, cold or fucking freezing - there is no "warm" at this point in the day! - we get up at 0-dark-30, make our way to the bridge, and walk out the maintenance catwalk suspended under the roadbed. There is no other experience quite like walking along a 3' wide metal walkway with open metal railings on each side as the ground drops away underneath, til you're out on the W plate hundreds of feet in the air and it's time to put your weight in your harness, trust the gear and your own competence, and unclip that final safety tether.
We had a glorious bluebird day Saturday... Almost *too* gorgeous. I neglected to strip off my base layers before we started up the 700' ascent ropes, and the sun was blazing hot as soon as we cleared the treeline! But the views were incredible, and I'll take dripping sweat over pissing rain any day.
Every year it gets a little more expensive, and the logistics get a little more annoying, and I wonder if maybe we've done this often enough. And every year we go anyway, and it's *always* worthwhile. The friends, the views, the workout on the way up, the ride on the way down...
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Bridge Day 2024
Nikon d3400, ISO 400
Arsenal Telear 250 mm lens for Pentacon Six, with adaptor
1/1000 at f9.5
Cropped from the 2mp jpeg, so not really high quality. -
More to come later after I sort through them.
Nikon d3400, ISO 400
Arsenal Telear 250mm Pentacon 6 mount lens with adaptor
1/1000 at f9.5
#bridgeday #westvirginia #photography -
From ancient stone bridges to modern-day bridges, today (the third Saturday in October) is dedicated to celebrating the engineering feat of those who design, build, and maintain bridges. Fort Laramie WY
#Bridge #Bridgeday #Bridges #Art #walldecor #wallart #historic #landmark -
Waiting in line in a parking lot for the shuttle out to the New River Gorge Bridge for #bridgeday 2024. Planning to spend a couple hours here then head on out to Sandstone Falls. If there's time after that, I'll ride up to see to the Glade Creek Grist Mill. It's a gorgeous day, supposed to get up to 76 and sunny.
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Got my new phone mount yesterday for the bike, one more item to knock off the list in preparation for my moto-camping trip in October. I'll probably not use it much, just when I'm in need of GPS.
The two is going to be the third weekend in October, when I'll be riding from Northeast Ohio down to the New River Gorge to hang out at #bridgeday and watch people base jump and rappel off the famous (infamous?) bridge, exploring as many twisty back roads as possible on the way there and back. Considering doing the triple nickel, OH route 555, one of the best rated roads in the Midwest for bikes.
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#Bridgeday is not technically a day about bridges but it's a nice day off for some office workers in may so *how else* are you supposed to celebrate it if not biking over bridges and having a picnic?
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