Canyon Eyesore

A mess.

This just disgusts me.

[Sheldonrs]

I actually think it's kind of cool. No way would I walk on it though.

But remember, everybody said the Eiffel Tower looked like crap when it was first built too.

[Happy Monkey]

I'd love to visit.

Unique, it is awesome. As a precedent it is worrisome.

Oh, I hate to admit I would love to walk on it. The idea of it disgusts me. As if someone broke anything precious in half, I would have to look inside, but mourn the loss of the beauty of the whole.

[jinx]

I think it's awesome.

[Sheldonrs]

I can see my bowel movement from here!!!

[monster]

How long befiore the first jumper? with or without chute?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by monster

How long befiore the first jumper? with or without chute?

With chute - one week.

Without chute - one month.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

A mess.

This just disgusts me.

please. get over yourself

[lumberjim]

The tribe will include access to the deck in a variety of tour packages ranging from $49.95 to $199.00. They'll allow up to 120 people at a time to look down to the canyon floor more than 4,000 feet below, a vantage point more than twice as high as the world's tallest buildings.

"To me, I believe this is going to help us. We don't get any help from the outside, so, why not?" said Dallas Quasula Sr., 74, a tribal elder who was at the Skywalk. "This is going to be our bread and butter."

if the savages can eek a living out of whitey with it, then god bless em. why you gotta be trying to hold the red man down, rage?!

Originally Posted by lumberjim

please. get over yourself

Coming from you, hilarious, especially after my second post in this thread.
Thanks, I needed that this week.:p

IMO, this is the equivalent of building a casino on top of the rim of the canyon.
Perhaps we should build a restaurant around Old Faithful and boil lobsters in it?

[glatt]

I think it's silly. A gaudy tourist trap. I would never pay that kind of money to go on it. I'd probably be a bit afraid to anyway.

But I've got no problem with it. It's located in a very remote area of the canyon that I'd wager nobody here has ever visited before. It's nearly 100 miles outside the National Park Border, in a part of the canyon that is much smaller and (comparatively) less spectacular than where the National Park is. You have to drive for an hour or so on indian reservation dirt roads just to get to it.

It's their land, let them do what they want to with it. They have a hell of a lot better record taking care of this planet than we do.

For those of you with Google Earth, check out: lat 36.012 long -113.811 to see how far away it is from everything else.

It's a mile and a half down a side canyon from the river, so even rafters will have a hard time seeing it. They may be able to see it if their guides point it out, and they have good vision, but they won't see it otherwise.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by Sheldonrs

But remember, everybody said the Eiffel Tower looked like crap when it was first built too.

It still does. But because it's now historic French crap, people seem to accept it better.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by monster

How long befiore the first jumper? with or without chute?

Personally, I'm waiting for the load limit to be exceeded.

[xoxoxoBruce]

I love it. Didn't realize it was on a side canyon though.
I've been wondering, since they said they would build it a year or more ago, in a sandy environment how will they keep it from getting scratched so badly you won't be able to see through it?

I drove out to the Grand Canyon National Monument on the north rim, down stream from the Park. A couple hours, over dirt tracks, through absolutely barren wastes. At the rim there was nothing but a trash barrel and a sign saying don't fall in.
Unlike the Park where you can't see the river well because its a mile down and 3 or 4 miles out, at the monument you're looking right down at the river, more than a mile down.
Pucker power squared!