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Mike Matson

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Anyone Want to Go on This Trail Ride?

Dec. 14, 2015, 10:30 AM

http://i.imgur.com/R69YsWt.jpg?1

Riding horses on a suspension bridge over the Snake River, Oregon. Coming from the Idaho side. 1950.

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Dec. 14, 2015, 10:35 AM

no. but thanks for asking.

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Dec. 14, 2015, 10:54 AM

Are you sure there is not a way around that?
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Dec. 14, 2015, 10:59 AM

Oh my...not even with my eyes closed!
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Dec. 15, 2015, 05:00 AM

How odd. I've seen that photo and it was labelled as riding donkeys or mules over a bridge in the Grand Canyon. If you zoom in, they do look like mules.

Yes, here it is:

https://sharlot.org/img/detail_htmls/1382br118p.html

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Dec. 15, 2015, 05:42 AM

Looks a lot more sturdy than the ones in Nepal....
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Dec. 15, 2015, 07:37 AM

At least that bridge has sides,
Friends did the Red Rock ride and some of their pics of riding mules across very narrow ridges - with no barriers on either side - gave me vertigo.

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Dec. 15, 2015, 09:08 AM

Zonderpaard, thank you for your research. I think you are right. We've traveled the Snake from Lewiston to end of navigation at the dam, and saw no bridge like that. The river canyon above Lewiston isn't quite like that picture, so I think it is Bright Angel Bridge.

Personally, I don't think it's a problem to cross that bridge, and it wouldn't bother me. After all, the mule or horse doesn't want to fall off either, and he has just as much skin in the game as you do.

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Mike Matson

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Dec. 15, 2015, 11:44 AM

A more detailed reference shows that the OP text regarding location is correct.

http://oregondigital.org/catalog/ore...ital:df66v4015

Bright Angel suspension bridge - not the same as in the photo.

http://mvrobi.zenfolio.com/img/s4/v10/p855063651-3.jpg

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Dec. 15, 2015, 11:48 AM

That's a big bag of NOPE.
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Zonderpaard

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Dec. 15, 2015, 12:28 PM

Originally posted by Mike Matson View Post

A more detailed reference shows that the OP text regarding location is correct.

http://oregondigital.org/catalog/ore...ital:df66v4015

Bright Angel suspension bridge - not the same as in the photo.

http://mvrobi.zenfolio.com/img/s4/v10/p855063651-3.jpg

The Bright Angel bridge you are showing is a new one. I think it's a replacement--1960s vintage?

And yes, I saw the Oregon collection image. So either the University of Oregon or the Sharlot Hall Museum in Arizona is wrong--maybe you should tell them?

They are mules, though. And that sure makes more sense in the Grand Canyon than on the Snake River.

ETA: Mike, it's not the Bright Angel, it's the Black Bridge. Google that and you will see that the site matches the one in the photo you posted.

Like here:

http://image.shutterstock.com/displa...a-51654820.jpg

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Dec. 15, 2015, 04:45 PM

Picture is of the Grand Canyon Mule Bridge.

Originally posted by Mike Matson View Post

Bright Angel suspension bridge - not the same as in the photo.

http://mvrobi.zenfolio.com/img/s4/v10/p855063651-3.jpg

The bridge you linked to is the walking bridge not the mule bridge - there are 2 bridges at the bottom. The mule bridge is located upstream from the walking bridge.

The old photo posted by the OP is the Grand Canyon mule bridge looking from east toward the west (looking from west toward the east you would see the tunnel you have to walk through).

Here is a current version of the Grand Canyon mule bridge looking from east toward the west (same orientation as the old photograph): http://infohost.nmt.edu/~rmilner/pho...lackBridge.jpg

You can see the same trail curving off to the right and cutting back under the bridge (been there ridden that 2x and hiked it more).

Another recent picture: https://www.flickr.com/photos/peterc...in/dateposted/

Decent map of the area showing the 2 bridges - the mule bridge is called the Kaibab Suspension Bridge (sometimes called the Black Bridge vs the Silver Bridge (hiking Bridge = Bright Angel Suspension Bridge):
http://grandcanyonhistory.clas.asu.e...PhantomMap.jpg
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Dec. 15, 2015, 04:47 PM

Zonderpaard we were posting at the same time University of Oregon is wrong!
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Dec. 15, 2015, 04:58 PM

I just realized if you blow up the photo from the University of Oregon and this photo: http://infohost.nmt.edu/~rmilner/pho...lackBridge.jpg you can see the same underpass to the left of the bridge beneath the trail.
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Dec. 15, 2015, 05:22 PM

Originally posted by Bells View Post

Zonderpaard we were posting at the same time University of Oregon is wrong!

So they are. It is an amazing spot, but it didn't look like Snake River country to me!

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Dec. 15, 2015, 06:46 PM

Whatever bridge it is, whatever equines those are, y'all enjoy the ride and I'll see you back at the barn!

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Dec. 15, 2015, 08:20 PM

I sure would have on my other horse who is sadly no longer with us. My newer ones...one of them maybe, the other, no.

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Dec. 15, 2015, 10:31 PM

The bridge st the bottom of the canyon would be a cakewalk compared to the trail ride down there. My family and I hiked a small portion of the Bright Angel Trail about two weeks ago. I was very nervous-it was icy in spots, narrow, you could fall off one side and die. I think I'd be super tense the whole way down on a mule, even though they're more sure-footed than I am. The bridge would be a relief.
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Dec. 16, 2015, 06:13 AM

Originally posted by Bells View Post

The old photo posted by the OP is the Grand Canyon mule bridge looking from east toward the west (looking from west toward the east you would see the tunnel you have to walk through).

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is that the one that was crossed in the movie Unbranded?
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Dec. 16, 2015, 06:51 AM

Amazing. Lots of fun until somebody spooks or slips.then it could get sporty.
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