First underpass on the AT
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/ind...to_take_a.html
Picture looks pretty cool.
Yahtzee
Originally Posted by Yahtzee
Is it the first underpass though? I thought you cross under the road at Harpers Ferry NOBO to come out on the opposite side before crossing the river on the bridge.
That's not necessarily an underpass, though. The bridge is raised so you simply cross right under it. This looks to be a drilled tunnel underneath a road that was previously flush with the ground.
I'm the guy in the blue pants... but cool underpass, there should be more of them
Sorry, I meant to quote blissful.
I thought the first underpass is I-40 at Davenport Gap
The trail was here before we arrived, and it will still be here when we are gone...enjoy it now, and preserve it for others that come after us
There is also one that takes hikers under Rt 9W in NY from the side where Bear Mt Inn is to over by the Zoo.
That's a numbered road going under I-40, and the AT uses it. Same is true at Sams Gap, where the road goes under I-26.
There are plenty of underpasses and tunnels on the Trail.......Bear Mountain, NY, West Hartford, VT come immediately to mind. I'm sure there are others.
Is Southwest Virginia never going to be included without someone having to stand up and see that it is counted? Surely no one has forgotten walking out of Groseclose (near Atkins) under I-81 before beginning up to Davis Path.--Kinnickinic
You never know just what you can do until you realize you absolutely have to do it.
--Salaun
Dangerous crossing!!! BS! It is an embarrassment to thruhikers.
The ATC is getting soft and bloated.
Bunch of Effing Pansies that need a tunnel, while so many PA bridges are in terrible shape.
.....Someday, like many others who joined WB in the early years, I may dry up and dissapear....
I don't recall having any problem crossing this road, I'd have to re-read my journal though.
It seems to me like the feds could use that highway money in a more effective manner. Plenty of bridges in Maine to update.
Kirby
Be Great if the landowners on either side decide to no longer allow the trail to go through their propoerty. You'd have a $1.5M Tunnel to nowhere (It'd be a Great place to stop and pee though).
.....Someday, like many others who joined WB in the early years, I may dry up and dissapear....
In NY, like many AT firsts.
Sorry, but if they mean a tunnel under a road that carries the trail, they're way too late.
The AT uses the pedestrian tunnel under Rt. 9 at Bear Mountain, between the park and the zoo (I just walked through it last year.) It's purely pedestrian, is dug into the ground (i.e., it's not a bridge for the road), and has been there for decades. It is very short, but I don't think length is really a requirement.
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.
Sun Tzu, The Art of War.
The trail used to go thru a culvert under I-77 at Bastian if I remember correctly.
This was in 1990 and prior to a relo later. It was different when I hiked thru in 2002.
geek
that will be pretty cool!!! no more roadkill
-Jason
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