Logs for EskoClimber
30-Jul-19
We came from the west by Ephraim Canyon Road to Skyline Drive to a major snow cornice completely blocking the road. We then back tracked to the junction of Ephraim Canyon Road and the road the leads over to Joe's Valley Reservoir and north on Miller Flat Road right straight to Potters Pond. When we left the area, we took Miller Flat Road north to SR31 and to points east.
We did not feel we wasted any time by our little side track on a blocked road because the view from above the tree line was something everyone has to see.
We parked at a campsite and took the hardway to the cache and the easy way back. I believe that is called being fixated on a goal. This was our main goal for this trip.
I did a TB swap, I left [Hexen Island Pony](https://coord.info/TB5K9F9) and took [Seeking Direction](https://coord.info/TB5J871).
Now the we accomplished our goal, we are going to find a few of the others around the area.
We did not feel we wasted any time by our little side track on a blocked road because the view from above the tree line was something everyone has to see.
We parked at a campsite and took the hardway to the cache and the easy way back. I believe that is called being fixated on a goal. This was our main goal for this trip.
I did a TB swap, I left [Hexen Island Pony](https://coord.info/TB5K9F9) and took [Seeking Direction](https://coord.info/TB5J871).
Now the we accomplished our goal, we are going to find a few of the others around the area.
27-Mar-16
AccordionGal and I are headed back to Minnesota when we realized that we were going by Mingo. We had to stop for our favorite old timer in Kansas.
I left [Go Bananas](http://coord.info/TB5JKRC) to celebrate the event.
I left [Go Bananas](http://coord.info/TB5JKRC) to celebrate the event.
16-Mar-08
15-Oct-05
Mallet locomotive #225, also known as a Yellowstone, was one of the largest locomotives made. This locomotive was purchased by the Duluth, Messabe, and Iron Range Railway in 1941. It is 127 feet long and 16 feet high. The locomotive weighed 347½ tons and the tender, when loaded with 25,000 gallons of water and 26 tons of coal weighed 218 tons.
It is one of only three Yellowstones left and is on display in Proctor, Minnesota where the DM&IRR was headquarted.
It is one of only three Yellowstones left and is on display in Proctor, Minnesota where the DM&IRR was headquarted.
This McDonnell F-101B "Voodoo" in Proctor, Minnesota is a memorial to the two pilots, Capt S.L. Gonyea and Capt J.L. Verville, that lost their lives in a crash on December 17, 1971.
13-Oct-05
The Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth, Minnesota was posted by theLams on Sept 13, 2003. Unfortunately, the didn't have a lot of information to go with it.
The Aerial Lift Bridge on Lake Avenue over the Duluth Ship Canal, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota is on the Minnesota Historical Society of registered places. The folowing is a from the Minnesota Historical Society's web site.
Although originally designed and currently configured as a vertical lift bridge, the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth began life as an aerial transfer bridge, an extremely rare type inspired by the only other such structure in the world – a suspended car bridge at Rouen, France.
The need for a bridge here first arose in 1871, when Duluth residents dug through the narrow slit of land known as Minnesota Point to create a harbor at the head of the Great Lakes. As advantageous as the shipping canal was for the city, it left citizens on the Point cut off from the mainland. In 1892 Duluth held a competition for a bridge design that would enable residents to cross without interrupting traffic in the shipping lane. The winning design, engineered by John Alexander Low Waddell, would have been the world’s first high-rise vertical lift bridge. But the Duluth project was cancelled before construction began and Waddell’s design was later built in Chicago. In 1905 Duluth finally built its bridge – an aerial transfer bridge with a huge gondola that could carry more than 60 tons of traffic, from pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons to automobiles. The 300-foot crossing took one minute to complete and was made every five minutes when traffic was heavy.
In 1929 the bridge was modified to accommodate a growing population on the Point and increasing tourist traffic. The gondola was removed, the height of the top span increased and structural supports incorporated into the towers to carry the counterweight roadway. This remodeling – coincidentally designed by a successor to Waddell’s engineering company – transformed the bridge into a vertical lift bridge much like the one originally conceived in 1892.
This bridge is unique enough to warrant an update.
Thanks for the opportunity to share Duluth's bridge.
The Aerial Lift Bridge on Lake Avenue over the Duluth Ship Canal, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota is on the Minnesota Historical Society of registered places. The folowing is a from the Minnesota Historical Society's web site.
Although originally designed and currently configured as a vertical lift bridge, the Aerial Lift Bridge in Duluth began life as an aerial transfer bridge, an extremely rare type inspired by the only other such structure in the world – a suspended car bridge at Rouen, France.
The need for a bridge here first arose in 1871, when Duluth residents dug through the narrow slit of land known as Minnesota Point to create a harbor at the head of the Great Lakes. As advantageous as the shipping canal was for the city, it left citizens on the Point cut off from the mainland. In 1892 Duluth held a competition for a bridge design that would enable residents to cross without interrupting traffic in the shipping lane. The winning design, engineered by John Alexander Low Waddell, would have been the world’s first high-rise vertical lift bridge. But the Duluth project was cancelled before construction began and Waddell’s design was later built in Chicago. In 1905 Duluth finally built its bridge – an aerial transfer bridge with a huge gondola that could carry more than 60 tons of traffic, from pedestrians and horse-drawn wagons to automobiles. The 300-foot crossing took one minute to complete and was made every five minutes when traffic was heavy.
In 1929 the bridge was modified to accommodate a growing population on the Point and increasing tourist traffic. The gondola was removed, the height of the top span increased and structural supports incorporated into the towers to carry the counterweight roadway. This remodeling – coincidentally designed by a successor to Waddell’s engineering company – transformed the bridge into a vertical lift bridge much like the one originally conceived in 1892.
This bridge is unique enough to warrant an update.
Thanks for the opportunity to share Duluth's bridge.
11-Oct-05
This is the METEOR, the last of the whalebacks. This ship used to ply Lake Superior and is now grounded and a museum on Barkers Island in Superior, Wisconsin.
Sugar Camp Fire Tower is located on Sugar Camp Hill in Douglas County, Wisconsin. The elevation of the hill is 1250 feet and the tower is 100 feet high. The tower is not manned but the WI DNR has not abandoned it either. One idea the DNR has is to rent or sell space on the tower for antennas to cellular phone vendors.
This is fairly new tower although the DNR could not tell me when it was erected.
This is fairly new tower although the DNR could not tell me when it was erected.
