-
- Shepaug River.
-
- The tower is set; skylines being deployed.
-
- Rigging setup on the hillside; safety and support lines locked off to nature’s own anchor.
-
- Austin moving floor beams into position.
-
- Tower-side landing is set; beginning to cast floor beams.
-
- The shape of the bridge begins to appear.
-
- Out of the chaos, order. Casting and pinning the decking beams.
-
- Cirque de Shepaug: Steve Howell in action.
-
- Drilling floor beam holes using a purpose-built jig.
-
- Beautiful, curving glulam deck beams being hoisted into position; Aaron Nelson directing.
-
- Seesawing glulam deck beams, prior to being tamed.
-
- Steve and Aaron finessing the glulam beams into place.
-
- Bridge deck as roof; hiding from a midsummer Connecticut downpour.
-
- Break time; seated where no seat has sat before.
-
- Mast-side landing; making use of the equipment on hand.
-
- The finished deck; beautiful.
-
- Through-drilling pins to tie the superstructure together.
-
- Decking fixed; railings being installed.
-
- Narrow (mast) tower on the curved side of the bridge.
-
- Compound angles.
-
- Thoreau Suspension Bridge, nearing completion.
-
- Bridge building is always glamorous; Ken and Aaron putting finishing touches on the underside of the landing deck.
-
- In Kansas it was a house and one witch. In Connecticut it’s a whole bridge, and two.
-
- Steve, Ken, and Austin and Aaron fine-tuning the structure.
-
- Thoreau Suspension Bridge, 2015.