BackWoods Drifter

New trails, new fossil hunting grounds, and new ginseng hollows. Those are the things I brought home with me from trail riding today. It was a beautiful day to be in the mountains. I started out this morning for an all day trip to the woods. I didn’t really go with intentions of exploring trails [...]

I’ve been spending a tremendous amout of time in the mountains. A couple of days ago while setting up a game camera, I was standing there waiting for my laptop to boot up when I thought to myself, now this is an office with a view. I’ve moved the game cameras a couple of times [...]

My friend Mountainsaver and I went riding and camping in Martins Creek yesterday through today. Martins Creek is in the head of Peachtree. I’ve been wanting to go there camping for a while to see if there was any ginseng growing there. We camped nearly in the head of the hollow at what used to [...]

Unable to wait an entire week and with a beautiful Sunday to kill, I headed back into the mountains for the day. It’s beginning to look like the game cameras are going to provide me with more questions than answers. I did get one deer shot out of this batch. The date and time on [...]

I went for a ride today to check the game cameras. I was anxious to see if I had photographed anything. The cameras themselves are about fifty feet apart. The first camera is positioned to look across the shelf. It is located at the outside edge and something would have to put a lot of [...]