Originally posted by cobbu2
That had to have been a bit perilous, there's not a lot of room to maneuver up there! ...
Yeah it's a trail no one would ever build for the public today, I think. I was there in 2017. In the top section of the route there are stations installed in the rocks linked with a heavy duty chain so people have something to hang on to where a slip of your footing coupled with a loss of grip on the chain means your demise in portions of the route.
There was, what I thought, a hazardous section with no chain for 20 or so feet. It was a big, flat sheet of rock you had to cross at about a 20 degree slope. It had some small, loose gravel on it. It was like walking on small marbles on a hard surface. If you slipped there, you probably would keep on going right off the edge! People were on their hand and knees crossing that section in an attempt to increase their surface friction. I thought, of all places on this mile of chain not to have something to hang on to they sure picked a doozy!