I am 90 years old. When the bridge was under Construction I took my mother and grandmother to see it. We stood on the rock outcrop which was what was the only overlook, and watched the men walk across the bridge on a one foot wide piece of the structure. My children and grandchildren still visit the bridge whenever possible. Many of us drive from Florida and one from Pennsylvania. I live in Florida but will take one more trip home to west va. And will see the bridge one last time. It brings memories.

@elpinchemarax3871

8 ай бұрын

Did you ever get a chance to go back to the bridge ??

@kronicles999

7 ай бұрын

90 years old commenting on KZread

Awesome Video! This is me, your tour guide! Come back and see us soon! sure enough i'm still guiding trips lol. Hope you enjoyed it!

@rallyforchrist4123

7 жыл бұрын

So glad I found this video. We do mission work in Richwood so we cross this bridge a couple times a year. One of my partners can't even look out over the side of the bridge when we cross it. Now it'll be fun telling him that there aren't even any bolts holding it up, and that it's only supported by its own weight! haha

@MrWhitelightning73

6 жыл бұрын

Tylor Tabit What do you do if you have to poop 💩

@chrisreed26

5 жыл бұрын

You are a brave guy!!! Hey come down to FL and see our high bridge, The Sunshine Skyway!! It was hit by a ship in the early 80', . the Sumimit Venture container ship...a Greyhound bus and many cars went over the edge that had fell into the bay..one man stopped inches before the edge in his car..Richard Horbuckle I think was his name..A new bridge was built and opened up about 1992? Not sure..

@thathurts6943

5 жыл бұрын

Do you still work there

my uncle was one of the workers who helped build this bridge

@Imachowderhead

3 жыл бұрын

He had balls of steel.

@sheslays45

3 жыл бұрын

Mine also! They had to know each other.

An engineering marvel. And it looks like the guide enjoys his job!

I am terrified of heights but crossing New River Gorge in our semi few years ago was like being free as a bird....it was amazing for my vertigo

I have been waiting to see and photograph this bridge in person for decades. When I found out I could drive to it in 5 hours..I started thinking about going. When I found out I could do this..it sealed the deal.

I done this as a kid. Teenager, we didn't pay to cross. We had to sneak, and climb up underneath. Remember it being really hard. No safety harness. And I will never forget the noise of the big trucks passing overhead. And the bridge sways. Not a lot , but she moves.

@suze816

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know how anyone did that without the safety harness... I'd have ended up crawling.. or something.. heh heh

@JEIWILBER

Жыл бұрын

Thats the fun way to cross it

My wife and I did the Bridge Walk 6-15-16. We both loved it. I knew nothing of the bridge until I stumbled onto this video about a year or so ago & I have been wanting to go there since then. Thanks for posting.

@ronaldcammarata3422

5 жыл бұрын

No, don't say "stumbled"!

Was a member of a crazy group of whitewater kayakers from KY paddling New & Gauley Rivers and we watched this great bridge being built in the 1970’s. Trained as Army paratrooper and served in West VA National Guard’s 19th Special Forces located at Huntington airport. I LOVE West Virginia ! Unlike ‘normal’ people when I’m on a high scenic elevation, I want to jump off and fly (with a parachute)

I remember doing that BEFORE there were tours. No ropes, high on mushrooms, and having the time of our lives. We would lay in the expansion joints and watch cars and trucks pass inches over our heads, also climb into the steel beems and do a little industrial caving. Those were the days.

@elpinchemarax3871

8 ай бұрын

Shit that sounds like something i would def do today if it wasnt for them damn bridge walk tours

That is one of the highest bridges I ever seen

We did this back in the '80's without all the safety gear and "experts". The few times we did it where awesome!

@scoutmaddoxg

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Mullins same, n4 people sued for everything

@scoutmaddoxg

6 жыл бұрын

B4

@WillBlindYouWithLight

3 жыл бұрын

Wow wish i was old enough

I have rappelled this twice in 1983 and 84 during bridge day We also used the catwalk. I used a 16 inch rappel rack for variable friction, starting with 4 bars and ending up with 7 bars.

Congrats to the State of West Virginia for the new New River Gorge National Park!

@corinnenothingmore10

3 жыл бұрын

Ya I'm supper excited to visit there tomorrow!!

I drove across that a couple times and stopped at the rest area there walk down as close as I could but man you don't appreciate it to your under it like that great video thank you

I saw this bridge from the bed of the river in 1982... Awesome sight... They said at that time people were "base jumping" from it... It was a great trip rafting on Gauley River...

Beautiful place , really enjoyed it

Thank you for this awesome video

great video, thanks for sharing, need to take a trip down there.

Thanks for posting! Now I’ll share with some of my old buddies lol! Ironworkers don’t die, they get killed lol. Sincerely, Ironworkers

I lived in Tampa,FL and have gone across this bridge many times as a kid going to Pipestem State Park..My father was from a small town in WV called Hinton..so we would go to Pipestem and Twin Falls twice a year and the GreenBrier at Christmas..family has property still in a very small town closwer to Twin Falls called Mullins...Wv is a beautiful state!! Would love to live there but no jobs that pay anything!!

i live right next to this bridge ive been across it milloins of times ive lived here my whole life

I'm related to the mayor of this town. We have an annual family reunion there. James Akers is his name. I live in Charlotte now, and my parents live elsewhere in NC but my dad's family is all from West Virginia, though oddly none of them live there anymore, at least not his closest family obviously since James is the mayor. It's hard for blue collar workers in a state like West Virginia, but its a beautiful state nonetheless. Been to the bridge many times, never gets old.

Tell Josh "THANK YOU" For Hanging The clear "Blue Moon Christmas Bulb with the fishing line" for his DAD "Father's Day is tomorrow & I think of him everyday ! " THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH

That looks so fun I'm going to do it one day

I was down there yesterday. I saw that white van . Iam definitely doing that walk if I go down there again this year

Ain't no way!!! You'd have to shoot me first!

Awesome!!!

My younger brother used to climb out onto the catwalk until he got to the middle and then would leave the cat walk and go out to the edge of the bridge on a beam. From there he'd base jump.

Thanks! It was a lot of fun!

Really enjoyed the video parts of the walk itself but almost gave me the heebie jeebies.. I want to know more about the building of the bridge and more about those expansion joints !

Beautiful scenery. I can't stand heights. There is nothing that would get me to walk that bridge. It does not look safe to me. But I did like the scenery below.

No soy was used in the building of this bridge.

It was a lot of fun. Even on really hot days, it is much cooler under the bridge!

We went White Water Rafting there in 2012. Saw this bridge. I didn't know this was available to do.

Just watching this gave me anxiety. Yikes!

Awesome I can’t do that I’m soo afraid the heights

I am thinking that while the bridge was being constructed in 1975, high winds blew down the temporary towers that were being used to suspend support cables across the gorge, The bridge project finished over budget and the necessary reconstruction of the cable towers probably was part of the cost overrun.

It's cool people get to do this. What's funny is when I was young I had a relative that lived very close and we would walk to the bridge and you could walk underneath on both sides. But we didn't walk across it.

Cool Video

O man I didn't know you could do that wow. It's making me dizzy

6:07 peregrine falcon!

@Cycle4974

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the identification!

@commoveo1

6 жыл бұрын

Lol that was kool!!!!

I've got a video on this tour also....what a fun time.

I do t think I could walk that. I did see this years ago when they did the first span. We had to drive the old way when I grew up.

Thanks!

I've been to this bridge and seen it from the visitors center. There's NO WAY that I would do this. The bridge is gorgeous though.

Nice video, that is on my to do list.

@lynnepaulocsak122

Жыл бұрын

Did you ever do it?! You only live once!

@bigtarheelfan

Жыл бұрын

@@lynnepaulocsak122 Yes, hope to go again someday.

this is a great video, but that boy leading the way made me a nervous wreck. You couldn't pay me enough to walk across this bridge.....even though this is my home sweet home.

7:57 keep your eye on the little person maning the head of the raft! They end up washed out/tapping out.

THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EXPERIENCE, WOW WOW ! YOU JUST CANNOT FEEL THE HEIGHT AND MASSIVENESS OF THIS BRIDGE ON A FILM HOWEVER GOOD IT IS ! I WOULD RECOMMEND GOING IN WARM WEATHER, WE WERE THERE IN NOVEMBER, BOUT FROZE OUR BUNS OFF ! HAAAAA ! IT WAS LIKE 38° WITH WINDS GUSTING TO AROUND 25 30 MPH ! WOW WOW NOW THATS A THRILL ALSO ! IT IS VERY SAFE AND EASY WALK, I WAS EIGHTY AND DID JUST FINE ! OH YES,WEST VIRGINIA MY MOUNTAIN MOMMA ! YALL COME VISIT, BUT DON'T STAY TOO LONG, WE ARE JEALOUS OF OUR MOMMA !

very cool

yes that boy made me a nervous wreck also, he's my grandson.If I were there I'd be having a fit when he sat down especially LOL

I just went over this bridge

Awesome

I did this in 2019 and it was SO AMAZING! It's up to $72 a person if anyone is wondering.

@sfcowan78

3 жыл бұрын

@Dmac 740 just think we just saved 72 bucks

@markbeck3489

3 жыл бұрын

Try 161.00 plus tax

@Toyeboy89

3 жыл бұрын

@@markbeck3489 seriously is that how much it cost now?

@markbeck3489

3 жыл бұрын

@@Toyeboy89 we were there last weekend and that's what it was

@jamesstone7283

3 жыл бұрын

@@markbeck3489 holy shit. Greed

I would love to do this bridge walk, hey you only live once!

@lynnepaulocsak122

Жыл бұрын

Carpe diem

My hometown

How much does it cost? And how loud is the road noise

I already Been on it. It was kinda scary

I have acrophobia, and honestly this would scare the shit out of me

I walk on that all the time

Hell no....to the no no no , hell to the noooooo!.

Ive rafted down the upper and lower gully River just going under it seemed high

I live less than 15 miles from this bridge and have driven over it many times. Somebody told me that the cost of taking the bridge walk was $73.00.

@MrWhitelightning73

6 жыл бұрын

Bill Bergendahl $73 💰💰💰😳😳😳

@yakamarezlife

5 жыл бұрын

They're crazy I'm not paying that

no way, looks super scary lol.

This sure brings back memories from the early 80s when I was working as a river guide! Only difference being that we used to do this walk drunk without safety lines. Shortly after sunset in the heat of the summer is the most eerie time on the bridge. The sound of the steel contracting scraping and moving sounds like the bridge is ready to fall.

Would love to do this how do you get a tour like this?

@brianb7423

4 жыл бұрын

There’s a visitor center right by the bridge and the building next to it is where you sign uo

#goals

Wow. They should redo that with a glass bottom all the way across.

Looks scary 😬

I've walked it a couple times

my parents were from white sulphur springs.

would you be willing to share/allow me to download your footage from this for a presentation?

I found out about this bridge on Fallout 76.

nice & really old video !!

Great video. Personal note - I did this with a friend in 96 or 97 prior to there being a safety mechanism (young & dumb). It really is quite the experience. Half way out...you do bounce up and down a little with the bridge as traffic moves across. Between that and the height...it's intense. Again...great video. Thanks.

Being from West 'BY GOD' Virginia (Clarksburg/West Milford/Jane Lew area) We've NEVER seen/ been a percipient in this!

Fuck that lmfao! I don't do heights If I did this I bet you anything id freeze before even getting a quarter of the way across haha :P

Here in FO76 right now

nope not in a million years

the loud noise's alone I could not do this

Would not walk out there for a billion dollars ! Don't know why they would build something like that.

uhmmm...whats on top of the bridge? why can't they walk ON TOP of the bridge, rather just below the top of the bridge?

@Watchdog_McCoy_5.7x28

Жыл бұрын

Traffic

Me and my friends to do this all the time, no harnesses or guide tho. It's illegal.

I did this and witnessed a guy commit suicide off the bridge he made eye contact with us

God that looks so incredibly boring and annoying. Guys, it's a solid structure with guard rails. You don't need harness.

Not funny at all to cross it with these many ropes‼🤷🏼‍♂

Thanks!