It was a quarter past 2 in the morning on July 29, and the 30-year-old Greenpeace organizer from South Florida stood 205 feet above the Willamette River, aside the emerald-painted steel trusses of the St. Johns Bridge.
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Turnstone and 12 others, Greenpeace volunteers from San Francisco and Olympia and Denver, were busy fastening themselves to the 84-year-old bridge with ropes fed through autolock devices that allowed them to control how fast they would rappel off the side.
“It was a little disorienting,” Turnstone says. “I couldn’t see the water, and it was so dark out.”