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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Started conversation Jul 11, 2011
, make that midnight sun 
anyway, pictures from my trip to the arctic are here now:
http://public.fotki.com/pierce42/troms-midsummer-2011/
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 11, 2011
Number 13 [the Cathedral] was so nice that I saved it to use as a desktop image. 
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Shea the Sarcastic Posted Jul 13, 2011
Beautiful pictures! Don't know if I could have gone up that cable car, though. 
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 13, 2011
Cable cars are an acquired taste, admittedly.
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 13, 2011
This was only about 1.200 feet. A few years ago I went up Mont Blanc from Chamonix/France: 11.400 feet . You can *really* feel the lack of oxygene in heights like that. In particular because it doesn't take more than about 15 minutes to reach it 
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 13, 2011
Is there a bicycle path up Mont Blanc?
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 13, 2011
That would take a fairly large trap, PAL. 
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 14, 2011
"Is there a bicycle path up Mont Blanc?"
No and making one seems impossible to me. Mont Blanc is well over 14000 feet and one of the tallest mountains in Europe (tallest if you don't count Kaukasus as part of Europe)
And who would want to pay for it 
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Pirate Alexander LeGray Posted Jul 14, 2011
8000 ft is the highest I've been, on a cloudy day; in a airplane and nearly crashed into by a vulcan
I've been up Blackpool Tower though.
Can't go up Mt Blanc cos I can't get travel insurance 
I never bin further than France.
Never mind, all the foreigners are coming here anyway.
You wouldn't believe, I need a translator to go to my local corner shop cos everybody speaks Russian. Even the kids.
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Jimcracker7[magiclink.rip gone altogether. im back.in my home from home. Posted Jul 14, 2011
hi ptp
just watched them all on the slideshow.they where great, well done.
not sure why you added the one with the track and the tarmac in need of repair, but still good photo,s 
jim
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Malabarista - now with added pony Posted Jul 14, 2011
Nice pictures. I like that arctic centre, interesting architecture.
The bridge I go across is the same kind of construction - tarmac over a sheet of steel - but the gravel at the edge has worn away, so I always have to stop and push my bicycle over the lip so I don't fall off. 
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 14, 2011
glad you liked it, mala, I was thinking of you and tav when I made said pic 
and there's your answer right there, Jim, the sidewalk on the bridge is nothing but thin steel plates covered with a thin layer of asphalt - and those are too wobbly for the fainthearted to walk on 
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Pierre de la Mer ~ sometimes slightly worried but never panicking ~ Posted Jul 14, 2011
You didn't try the wobbly bridge (millenium bridge) in London, paulh? what a shame
i crossed it with a group of scouts who made a good job out of marching in time
we had a swinging good time 
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