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 first [...]

I was in the mountains all day yesterday. I didn’t camp as I had thought about doing mainly because after about 12 hours of riding and taking photos I was ready for a shower and a comfortable bed.
I was lucky to see a variety of wildlife yesterday which included two deer, five bear, and countless [...]

Over a week ago I said I was going to get back to blogging. Since then I have been busier than a cat trying to cover crap on a marble floor.
Basically I was getting ready for last weekend.  My friend was coming in and it was time for our annual ATV ride into the backwoods. [...]

I was digging through the tons of files I have let build up on my computer and came across a file that holds all of the files and photos ever displayed on the original West Virginia Outdoors website. One thing that has definitely remained constant since the beginning is I still take a lot of [...]

Growing up I used to spend a lot of time in the mountains. If hunting season wasn’t in I was hiking or senging (looking for ginseng). I especially enjoyed squirrel hunting. I remember a time all too well where you could judge how well someone has done in the squirrel season by how many squirrel [...]