Actually, you end up driving on pard-packed snow covered by a layer of what is referred to as 'stamp sand.'
Back in the heyday of the copper mining industry in the Keweenaw Penninsula (the rabbit's ear, for those in the know), they ran the ore through a stamping plant to separate the copper. What was left was this coarse black sand.
Lots and lots of coarse black sand, probably millions of cubic yards of it all over the place.
Actually, you end up driving on pard-packed snow covered by a layer of what is referred to as ‘stamp sand.’
Very interesting! I didn’t know that.
I’m sure you know The Yoopers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IgzksUqpQ
FWIW we have similar problems here in Western PA. Not the deep snow so much but the salt and socialist PennDot crews.
Can you send us some of that Stamp Sand?
Probably illegal....
There was the black sand from the mill. A small fortune was made by the entrepreneurs who discovered even more copper could be extracted. This from the discarded heaps of tailings. This you will know.
I smiled as I posed by the sign of the communities only bar. It read "The Gay Bar". I went in with my wife to quaff an ale. The last place on earth any one would expect to find any one who would be called "gay". I did not find, nor did I look for any "gays". I and sipped my beer and felt, though a stranger quite at ease.
Google has the same sign and also the school house preserved in time. I plan one last look at the Copper Country in August. My daughter will be driving myself and my wife of 54 years married. She was about six years old when she was with me on our trip, many years ago.
Excuse this ramble.