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 [...]

Since starting my personal crusade against mountaintop removal coal mining I have asked myself almost daily – what is it going to take to stop the ignorance? I’m here to tell you today what it will take. It is going to take people just like me banding together with other people just like me and [...]

One thing I love about being on the summit of the Appalachia’s is the view. This photo is looking into the heart of Raleigh County. The community in the foreground is right at the mouth of Drews Creek, West Virginia. The community in the upper left portion is Dry Creek.

If you turn 180degrees and look [...]

… brought to you by the coal industry.
The more I talked with people in Drews Creek the more it became obvious they didn’t have a clue about the new mountaintop removal site. It was just like one day there is peace and quiet and the next day your picking broken picture frames up off the [...]