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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape Photography Locations => Topic started by: Jo Irps on September 11, 2006, 05:53:15 pm

Title: Grand Canyon
Post by: Jo Irps on September 11, 2006, 05:53:15 pm

Is this really going to happen or am I dreaming:

http://www.grandcanyonskywalk.com/home.html (http://www.grandcanyonskywalk.com/home.html)

If all NP's are going to invent something like this, what will happen to unspoiled nature. It's spoiled enough already. Next we going to hape heli landing spots build next to these constuctions?  

Title: Grand Canyon
Post by: Tim Gray on September 11, 2006, 06:13:11 pm

It's a democracy and people vote with their pocketbooks.

Title: Grand Canyon
Post by: Curt on September 11, 2006, 06:46:07 pm

Yeah, I feel your pain. I saw this conception on TV news a few months ago. Appears to be on Indian land so not much we can say about it.

Title: Grand Canyon
Post by: Win on September 12, 2006, 04:06:14 pm

This is not in the National Park, I don't agree with it but it's in private land.

Win

Title: Grand Canyon
Post by: raptorsys on September 12, 2006, 07:32:54 pm

It also looks pretty flimsy and I just hope it doesn't fail with a hundred people on it.  I'd be happier if it was braced a bit more, there has got to be one h*ll of a lot of force (moment) tending to bend it down at the base and the more people on it the more I'd be concerned.  I haven't seen the engineering drawings, but it just doesn't look safe to me...


I also agree that it would be better to limit construction of anything at the GC.


Brian