Almost Haiti . . . West Virginia

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wilbeer

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Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,

Jan 19, 2018 - 03:55pm PT

That valley to the west is the Seneca Creek Canyon,winding down from Spruce Knob,well known by class 4-5 steep creekers and some climbers.

Up on the ridge behind that east face ,which is awesome,is the North Fork Trail ,a cool knifes edge,that was home of The Knarly North Fork,a MTB race that used to take place yearly.It ran from rt 33 at Judy Gap to the Smoke Hole Caverns.

One had to bring 3-4 spare tubes just to finish that race.

All very cool stuff.Look at all them bugs,lol.

Gail Hightower

climber

Jan 19, 2018 - 05:31pm PT

Southern Appalachia has a crazy amount of climbing in it, and lots of it is stellar.

And the people are usually some of the friendliest you will meet even if the occasional one wants you off their land.

tradmanclimbs

Ice climber

Pomfert VT

Jan 19, 2018 - 08:16pm PT

Only had one weird experience down there. Two Fat Podunk greasy sherriff deputys in a filthy ford explorer followed us and pulled us over for driving slow and being tourists. Both of them creepy as fck with sex offender written on their foreheads right between their beady eyes... Have had bear hunters with dogs and guns come through camp at 3am and it was totally cool but these LEO's gave me the creeps.....

Bethesda

Trad climber

Bethesda

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 20, 2018 - 04:47am PT

One of the yet hidden metoo stories is abuse by law enforcement. A friend of mine had her purse stolen, reported it at the police station, an officer offered to drive her home, followed her into her apartment, tried to assault her. She resisted and he then left. She didn't report the matter because she was terrified, rationally or not, not only of the officer in question but of what other officers on the force might do to her if they thought she had tattled on their colleague. This was not, by the way, in West Virginia.

I believe that a lot of officers know that this kind of abuse of authority goes on but choose to look the other way, most likely out of fear what will happen to them if they are perceived as disloyal to the force.

I myself knew of Harvey Weinstein-type behavior when I worked at various law firms but kept my mouth shut because I thought speaking up would hurt me and not do any good.

Bethesda

Trad climber

Bethesda

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 25, 2018 - 08:02am PT

For all the bad things said about West Virginia, some of us who have spent a lot of time there (for recreational reasons) just love the place and are frustrated because the people there sometimes seem so hard to reach (and seem so uninterested in any effort by an outsider to reach out -- which I understand may be justifiable and not all that different from what you find in any other self-defined community).

In this vein, see the below Washington Post article about someone who moved to W. Va. and tried to aid local business development.

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