Not Rayellen's Favorite!

 So the big stop of Day 2 was Kinzua Skywalk. 

The building pays homage to the viaduct.


A good view of the Skywalk:


It was covered in snow!


Finally getting to the end:


And then I cleared off the snow -- or at least enough of it to get a really cool view. (NOT Rayellen's favorite place to visit. It's okay -- there'll be someplace fun for her!)


Standing on the glass. How cool! (Don't worry, Raya! There's comfy benches for you while the non-acrophobics go out and taunt gravity)


Close your eyes, Raya -- Granny is about to peek over the edge!


Check out the debris field. That tornado did a number on the bridge.


And straight down into the debris field:


Turning around to go back, let's get a better look at that glass floor:


Selfie at the top:


Peering down between the railroad ties:


I even walked on the ties for a while, but decided not to overdo it lest I slip in the snow and hurt myself.


Looking down between the ties:


Look at how cool the snow looks on the wood grain:


Critter tracks on the snow:


Definitely a deer print:


A warning about the trail I'm about to take:


At first the trail's not bad at all:


Cool erosion control:


The view from the bottom:


And let's just pan along that tower:


There was a piece of random stuff just sitting upwind from the rest of the ruin. I'm not sure what it was, but it looked pretty gnarly just sitting there in the woods:


Looking at the other end from below:


The approach to the debris field:


Views of each end of the viaduct from the debris field:


Check out those anchor posts.


Look at how twisted the supports are.

Here's a view of that pretty little bridge I saw from the skyway:


After all the snow melted that path in the valley was pretty muddy!


A majestic look at the skyway and bridge:


This captures the peacefulness at the creek:


And coming up the trail, just the sounds of the forest and my footsteps:


And let's close out with the work of a random woodpecker:









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