This post is just to show mountaintop removal coal mining in relation to Ivy Knob on Bolt Mountain. Ivy Knob is the highest point in the Guyandotte Mountain Range at just over 3,200 feet.

For a closer look at the surface mine you can check out this view and this one.

I finally got to go on my hike. It wasn’t a multi-day hike like I originally intended but it was an all day hike. Two days later I am still feeling this first hike.

I took a lot of photos covering more than one subject. If you go to the Stop MTR blog you will see photos I took of the mountaintop removal site in Clays Branch. If you go to the BackWoods drifter site you will see photos of a ramp (wild leek) patch I happened across. On this site, I have some scenery to show you.

All of these photos and the ones on the other blogs were taken from the ridge that separates Drews Creek from Clays Branch.