Bolt Mountain, West Virginia | The BackWoods Drifter

West Virginia Black Gold


The trucks in the last two photos are hauling from the Peachtree Ridge Mining Company. The other photos are from the strip roads on Bolt Mountain.

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Dennie says:
07/17/2007

Nice pics. I remember the last two with the coal trucks. We were sitting on our atv’s watching them go by one right after another. Then, we joined in on our way to rt.99. I can still taste the dirt.

denny says:
07/17/2007

Yep… that was the day I took these and had actually forgot about joining them out of the hollow.