BackWoods Drifter

Before I get in to the thick of this post I kind of want to explain something about my blog. Not too long ago I had fun with it. That was when I was blogging about just whatever happened to be on my mind at the time. Somewhere along the way I turned the blog [...]

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 be [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I wrote a post describing my plans to back off in my battle against mountaintop removal coal mining. Today I am recanting that statement.
There will be no threat you can make that will cause me to back off. I feel like a weakling for even considering it. You can email me all you want, [...]