I’m not sure when I first got the idea to do a repel, but it was soon after the bridge’s completion. For years I pondered over just how to do it. Not the repel itself, but for the logistics of the activity. Originally I thought that I would need someone in a boat, hovering in the water below me to repel into. But, you guessed it, I could find no one with a boat willing to do the deed. I kept getting, “Isn’t that illegal?” as an excuse.

For a narration of the mind set and the preparations of the event and how we met the many challenges of such a repel see Chapter 12 of “Exploits of a Common Adventurer Book II” by kent irwin.