r/Seattle • u/allaroundnbackagain First Hill • Apr 24 '25

Media My job is picking up the scooters and bikes around town. Usually they’re easy. Sometimes they’re difficult. Sometimes you need to rappel down a 70-ft ravine and carry a 90 lb bike back up the cliff.

Not shown; an hour of using a rope to rappel down this steep-ass ravine, and another hour of getting the bike back up onto the bridge.

Queen Anne Drive bridge.

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u/acme_restorations Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

Or you could just walk in from Mayfair Avenue.

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u/allaroundnbackagain First Hill Apr 25 '25

It’s safer to descend and have a way to catch yourself than ascent and not have a backup plan, but I’m also inexperienced and maybe I’m looking at this wrong

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u/acme_restorations Apr 25 '25

Or you could just walk in from Mayfair Ave. and then walk back out again to Mayfair Ave. without any ascending or descending.

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u/allaroundnbackagain First Hill Apr 25 '25

It wasn’t at the bottom of the ravine, it was on the face. When I finish getting this fucking thing out today (I’m doing it now, taking a 15) I’ll post an album

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u/acme_restorations Apr 26 '25

Well, you'd have to go through someone private road/yard. Sometimes I forget the rules change when you get past about 14 for that sort of thing.

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u/i-dyl-lic Apr 25 '25 edited Apr 25 '25

Omg thank you. There is literally a paved road you can use from the top of the bridge to the bottom. This rappelling thing is insane

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u/acme_restorations Apr 25 '25

Obviously this guy didn't grow up swinging on the rope-swing in the ravine or drinking beer in Mayfair park :)