More Butt!

On the little side car trip while bike was in storage Kriss and Dan hit up a couple sites.  One of those was Vulcan Monument in Birmingham Alabama.  It is supposedly the largest cast iron sculpture in the world at something like 56 tons.  Getting pictures of it is ridiculous since it sits on top of a 120 foot tower.  There were 159 steps to climb up inside the tower to get to an observation platform below the statue and see the city far below... or you could take the elevator.

Here are a couple pics.

The close up is from the observation platform, butt the platform did not extend far enough on the face side to get a picture from there.  The platform had a metal grate deck, which when 100 feet above the ground was somewhat disconcerting and caused one of our intrepid explorers to 'hug' the tower on the way around.  It became rather interesting when the tower hugger encountered another of the breed going the opposite way around and one of them had to release from the surety of the stone for a brief moment.