• Wednesday-What'sUP March 31 - 06:53 am

We welcome Judy Schaefer as our most recent contributor to the daily Pasty Cam photos. Judy said she they paid a visit to their Big Traverse camp and snapped a few pictures to share with us, including a look at the boat launch and closer to the camera, the stamp sand build up in the channel there. Right now it's covered with snow and ice and so is the pier. Judy said they were amazed at the amount of ice that's built up on the exposed portion of the breakwall that juts out into Lake Superior. The water is opening up through the channel, but it will take a number of warm, sunny days to melt through all that crusted ice. It'll happen, we just have to be patient until it does.

Good morning! It's the middle of the week already!!

Have a great day!!

Nice lookin photos, time to get U.P. to Little Betsy!

That blue is just so beautiful....great to see it, huh?

And what beauty with Mother Nature as the "Artist in Residence".

It is ironic, yesterday while down at the Lake Erie boat launch ramp there were 7 trailers parked as the "guys" went afishn..While they were out there ice flowed into the dock area from the Detroit River and the park officials were trying to remove it with front loaders while the anglers waited 100' off shore. It does look like spring has sprung after a long snowy winter here in northern Monroe county.

Love these pictures! The blue hues are a bit different in each picture.

What exactly is "stamp" sand? The road sand stuff you stamp off
your feet when heading indoors, or something related to mining or
a stamp mill?

Thanks!

Jeff Johnston
Eugene, OR

stamp sand is a mining biproduct.

With the exception of fissure veins where larger chunks of copper (some weighing up to several tons) were found, the majority of the copper came out of mines in small pieces that were embedded in a rock matrix. To extract the copper, the rock had to be crushed to sand-like consistency. The waste rock after crushing is commonly known as "stamp sand", because of the stamping mills used to do the crushing.

Good pictures.

I couldn't have said it better myself, Dale..... ;-)

Hey UC,
How are things going with the Little Betsy situation?

Jbuck- Still in the estate and not sold yet, hoping it stays that way for awhile, thanks.

Am hoping for the best UC ~ after the fiasco with our family estate in Antrim County i know how painful this is. I feel for you, brother Wildcat!!