Camping and Hiking « BackWoods Drifter

A Mouse Tale

Posted by Denny Tyler, on May 22nd, 2008

This photo is of a place called Peachtree Hole. Back when I was a teenager this was one of my favorite fishing spots. The first real camping trip I ever went on without supervision was right here. I was probably around 12 at the time. It was only about a mile from [...]

Plan A or Plan B

Posted by Denny Tyler, on April 5th, 2008

Unfortunately all of my plans to go to the mountains have been delayed because of the weather. It seems like ever since making those plans the weather has been in a foul mood. I am still hoping to go sometime in the near future but I believe I am just going to leave my gear [...]

Taking The Long Hike

Posted by Denny Tyler, on April 1st, 2008

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 [...]

Scheduled Posting & Camping West Virginia

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 31st, 2008

Another benefit I have recently discovered to moving my blog – I can now do scheduled posting. I’m not 100% sure I couldn’t do that with Blogger but I am 100% sure I couldn’t figure out how.

The last post to this blog was done with scheduled posting. I actually wrote that post when I [...]

Mountain Getaway

Posted by Denny Tyler, on March 23rd, 2008

What can I say besides – I needed that.

My friend Dennie arrived from Ohio Thursday evening. I must be in Mother Natures good graces. It was nasty the day before he got here – it warmed up into the high 60′s the first day of his visit and the low 60′s the next. Today, [...]