Trip to “Grand Canyon West” and the “Skywalk”

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YouTubers “LifeJourneyGuy” and England’s “Ajdpadbury” (aka Anthony) headed out from Las Vegas a couple of weeks ago to check out “Grand Canyon West” and more...the “Skywalk”. We had a GREAT time!!!! Here’s the info on the skywalk from the official website (http://destinationgrandcanyon.com/skywalk.html):

“The Glass Bridge Construction of the Skywalk began March of 2004 and will open March 28, 2007.

“Upon completion, the Glass Bridge will be suspended 4,000 feet above the Colorado River on the very edge of the Grand Canyon. On May 2005, the final test was conducted and the stucture passed engineering requirements by 400 percent, enabling it to withstand the weight of 71 fully loaded Boeing 747 airplanes (more than 71 million pounds). The bridge will be able to sustain winds in excess of 100 miles per hour from 8 different directions, as well as an 8.0 magnitude earthquake within 50 miles. More than one million pounds of steel will go into the construction of the Grand Canyon Skywalk.”

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To get to and from the Skywalk, it requires you to drive on 28 miles of VERY dusty dirt road with sections of fairly deep gravel and “washboard” surfacing, so after again reaching the “land of paved roads”, I pulled over and wiped the dirt off my SUV, and we visited with two really adventurous Harley riders from Alaska who had done the dirt road on their big Harleys! I’ve been a motorcyclist for 38 years, but would only wanna do THAT road on a off-road type DIRT bike!!

No cameras of ANY kind are allowed ON the Skywalk, and it’s difficult (and becoming INCREASINGLY difficult) to even film the Skywalk while OFF the structure, so just be aware of that if you plan to visit this unique structure, because most of your memories of your visit will be IN your memory!! You can tho’ buy commemorative photos, taken by Skywalk employees, of yourself on the Skywalk, but, if I recall correctly, those photos start at around $26, so Anthony and I stood off to the side of the Skywalk, and used our camera zoom lenses instead! Also, it costs a minimum of $74.95 per person to walk on the Skywalk, so we considered it a “once in a lifetime” kinda experience, but the view FROM the Skywalk, and the view THROUGH the TOTALLY “SEE-THROUGH” type WALKWAY SURFACE of the Skywalk below your feet to the ground thousands of feet below was WELL worth it!, altho’ we noticed that quite a few people experienced a DEFINITE fear of heights once they’d look down and see “nothing” supporting them! LOL

The song is “You Can Go Your Own Way” by Chris Rea. less

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Sep 25, 07 By: LifeJourneyGuy

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Posted Nov 28, 07 by Georgswa
Grat sights

See my Africas Canyon

Posted Nov 28, 07 by LifeJourneyGuy
Really nice video about Africa!! "Hit"!

Posted Sep 25, 07 by wheresthesea
oh yes I'd like to go on that skywalk. We flew over the grand canyon in one of those 6 seater planes last Summer. I saw the helicopters underneath us and thought it would have been more dramatic in those, but that skywalk would be even better!

Posted Sep 25, 07 by LifeJourneyGuy
Hi Christine! That must have been fun flyin' over the Canyon! :) I think you'd love the Skywalk; I just LOVED the view thru' the see-through walkway below!!! You get at least a SMALL sense of what it must feel like to be a bird floating on the air currents!! more...