I remember visiting the San Francisco bay area and the Golden Gate Bridge one time with a friend when we unwittingly decided we would walk across the entire length. We started out briskly at the west bridge approach at Golden Gate Park and proceeded toward the east bank and the city of Sausalito and Marin county. We made it to the first of two huge suspension cable towers posing for pictures with the permanent bridge painting crew (it takes over a year to continuously paint the bridge from one end to the other). Making our way across the massive bridge we suddenly came to the realization we were not even half way and this bridge is probably at least 3 miles long making it a six mile hike from one bank approach to the other and back! None-the less we never walked the Golden Gate bridge length. --Robert Cumming