China one ups Grandfather Mountain

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China one ups Grandfather Mountain

Unread post by appdaze » Sun Oct 04, 2015 6:07 pm



So this is now a thing in China. Recently built and clearly built out of jealousy of the Grandfather Bridge. O well, I guess its time to scrap the bridge and set up swinging ropes Pitfall style.

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Re: China one ups Grandfather Mountain

Unread post by McLeansvilleAppFan » Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:16 pm

appdaze wrote:


So this is now a thing in China. Recently built and clearly built out of jealousy of the Grandfather Bridge. O well, I guess its time to scrap the bridge and set up swinging ropes Pitfall style.
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Re: China one ups Grandfather Mountain

Unread post by McLeansvilleAppFan » Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:28 pm

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Re: China one ups Grandfather Mountain

Unread post by newtoasu » Thu Oct 15, 2015 4:52 pm

The glass bridge cracked last week, although they say the cracks do not affect the safety of the bridge:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/travel/ch ... ay-cracks/

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Re: China one ups Grandfather Mountain

Unread post by AppinVA » Thu Oct 15, 2015 6:06 pm

newtoasu wrote:The glass bridge cracked last week, although they say the cracks do not affect the safety of the bridge:

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/07/travel/ch ... ay-cracks/
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