I'm picking up on this this thread I started in a different subject, and felt it was getting "off topic":
AlmostThere wrote:Bridges? What bridges?
All the bridges are on "front country" trails. Most are built sufficiently high off the water to not be inundated and swept away, like their predecessors.
The Wapama bridge was destroyed and rebuilt in runoff a few years ago -- there is no way to build that in such a manner that it wouldn't be. And shortly after it was rebuilt, people died crossing it when the falls was high.
Backcountry stuff, it's rare to find a bridge. Usually a waterway has to be pretty dangerous for a sustained period to get one.
So, on we go...
AT, I was referring to the foot bridges that cross the Merced, going "uphill" from LYV. I guess that is a "front country" route, but it would be a popular route, as part of it is JMT.
The bridges are marked on the (now old) topo maps online, on the Yosemite maps links.
Some of what I've read (not here, on this site) stated that at least one of those bridges was out. This was posted many years ago, and I just assumed that it was rebuilt. I have no more details than that.
I'm thinking that, if one of them was truly out, there would be a thread / posting about it on this site. Since I have not seen one, I assumed that "all was good".
But, I did not want to be looking at a downed foot bridge across a swollen Merced, in the narrow gorge just above LYV, and then turn around because I assumed wrong...