BackWoods Drifter

What is Hell’s Gate? It is a simple metal gate on Kayford Mountain that separates Larry Gibson’s property from an active mountaintop removal site.

Once you pass Hell’s Gate it is like you are transported to an entirely different planet. Or, as the name would suggest, Hell on Earth.

The next photo shows the dragline which is [...]

The picture in this post has it all. Horses, meadows, a barn, a creek, trees, mountains, a valley fill, and the accused culprit of the valley fill – power lines.

The active valley fill is in Clear Fork, WV. The site is actually a part of the Kayford Mountain MTR site. Believe me when I tell [...]