Angels Wings

You can see them from twenty miles away, the angels wings.   High on the side of a mountain are the tailings from an asbestos mine that went defunct many years ago. The tailings form white wing looking images.  Our band of adventurers all had a trip to the mine on our bucket list.  There is a road to the mine, but it is impossible to drive any vehicle on the boulder strewn road. Kadizzle decided to bike as far as he could on the road. The rest of the crew would walk.  After biking a mile or two even Kadizzle could go no further so he pushed the bike up the boulder strewn road.  The idea was that there may be some good stretches where he could ride. After a great deal of struggle and leaving the bike behind Kadizzle made it to the old mine site.  The rest of the crew got there about the same time.  The view was incredible.  We were five thousand feet higher than the lake where we started our trip.  The mine entered the mountain from a cliff side.  Somehow the miners had carved out a little road to get to the mining area.  Kadizzle went in the old mine to try to see the vein of asbestos.  Maybe a better description would be the layer of asbestos.  It seemed like a lot of work for a layer of asbestos only inches thick.  Back inside the mine it appeared the thickness increased.  Strangely it appeared the miners lived in the front of the mine.  There were old bed frames there.  The price of asbestos must have been very high at the time the mine was active to make such a difficult undertaking worthwhile. It might have been mined around world war two.  Kadizzle will do some googling and get back.