BackWoods Drifter » Kayford Mountain http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com West Virginia Outdoors Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:38:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Beyond Hell’s Gate http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com/2008/06/beyond-hells-gate/ http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com/2008/06/beyond-hells-gate/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:01:40 +0000 Denny Tyler http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com/?p=574 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.

[...]]]> http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com/2008/06/beyond-hells-gate/feed/ 5 Almost Heaven, West Virginia http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com/2008/04/almost-heaven-west-virginia/ http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com/2008/04/almost-heaven-west-virginia/#comments Thu, 01 May 2008 00:54:49 +0000 Denny Tyler http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com/?p=462 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 [...]]]> http://wvbackwoodsdrifter.com/2008/04/almost-heaven-west-virginia/feed/ 0