BackWoods Drifter

A little bit of blog history… This blog started as a website called West Virginia Outdoors. The purpose of the original site was to show my outdoor photos. At the time, blog software was archaic to put it mildly and was used mostly as a website add-on instead of a stand-alone entity. I started my [...]

The entire first two days basically followed the same trail as mapped in this post. The difference being my friend and I camped before the climb to the top of the mountain. My last trip into Spring Hollow, I was riding the ATV my friend was on this time. At that time I had reservations [...]

This is a continuation of the last post. The second day started almost as nice as the first day ended. I slept longer than I had intended. It was about 7:30am when the sun finally woke me up. I had wanted to get up earlier and catch the sunrise but I was pretty wore out [...]

I traded my hiking boots for four mud tires this weekend and headed to the mountains. Sometimes, with me anyway, it is better not to plan a camping trip but instead just keep everything ready and when the opportunity presents itself take advantage of it. I had been keeping a close watch on the weather [...]

When you go on a long hike – what is the essential gear you take? When I say long hike I mean when you plan on hiking for longer than a day. My regular long hike gear includes – backpack, Ozark dome tent (3 person capacity), 3lb sleeping bag, Garmin GPS, CaseXX hunting knife, small [...]