Re: [ST] Wayne National Forest (OH) - Need Advice

[Bil Swartz <bil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Garry Simmons wrote:

> Some places spread gravel (aka cinders) on the roads in winter to aid
> traction rather than use salt. Not sure of the origin of the name, but I
> think it's just gravel. Might be coke oven or steel mill related though.
> Dunno...

I don't think what I was seeing was gravel, looked like tiny little black
puff balls for lack of a better description.  Last year about this time I
was down in SE Ohio and came in a little hot into a switchback that was
littered with it still in between the tire tracks. It wasn't quite a
powdery thing, real gritty.  Mebbe a volcano blew it's top nearby? ;^{D

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