What's it like living here? I'm thinking of places to live after I leave the military and W. Virginia seems pretty affordable while also having huge access to a lot of outdoors stuff. Anyone have any personal experiences?
What's it like living here? I'm thinking of places to live after I leave the military and W.
No idea from what I've seen its a pretty good place. Though I'd assume its drug problems and lack of work.
its had the highest OD counts in the country for like 8 years running.
Anon, New Hampshire north of the white mountains is paradise. I read about all the garbage in the world, and almost none of it is applicable here.
>source dude trust me
W. Virginia apparently has some of the best caving in the country.
Also feral humans that live in caves
Damn didn't know it was that bad.
Move to Beckley. It is really nice.
Route 48 is my favorite road. It is very fun to drive on.
Have you seen parallelogram mountain? It's kinda shaped like a pyramid but that comes to a square on top not a point I guess. It's off of 48 somewhere between wardensville and moorefield I think.
Frick off boot we don’t have room for you I am sorry
West Virginia’s pretty much a redneck and white trash hellhole. If you live close to the border with KY though then you can hit up the Red River Gorge for rock climbing for a lifetime and the Daniel Boone Natl Forest generally for more hiking and backpacking than you can shake a stick at.
>going to an PrepHole state to talk to people
ngmi. no one moves to West Virginia to socialize.
Red River Gorge is perfectly nice and all but the most scenic part of WV is the highlands where it's 3000 ft + elevation in between about Holly River State Park and Canaan Valley or so. That's another world of rugged.
Humid. Nice mountain roads. Lots of trees. lots of bugs. easy to get lost in even a small area, because visibility is so poor in dense forest, almost rainforest. If you're lucky, you'll find vines that you can swing on. Just test them a bit before you swing over large drops. Or don't. That's fun too.
Way, way more humid in the lowlands than the highlands. Elevation makes a big difference. Davis/Thomas don't usually get that hot.
> If you're lucky, you'll find vines that you can swing on.
If you get unlucky the trail disappears partially off the side of the mountain and you find the rhododendron are the only thing to keep you alive by clinging to with both hands
been there brother. fricked it up once on a shale cliff next to a lake, got loose and rolled down the hill, hit two trees then fell in the lake. the physical pain was not much compared to the emotional pain of doing something so ridiculous lmao
omg shale is dangerous no this was a legit trail in the monongahela forest, just not a recently maintained one.
it was like 600 ft or something down to the bottom tho
Sounds like a nice trail. I've only seen a few of them over there, but they were all pretty cool.
Nothing better than a random trail along a creek in the mon
this was in otter creek wilderness
Creekside trails are sick.
here's what I don't get, in the west, they call creeks "cricks"
wtf
there's two ee's, crEEk...it's CREEK. it's not fricking CRICK that's ridiculous
The best trails in the mon are anything named "run" not creek actually - I guess creek would be something larger
many of the "run" trails are abandoned but potentially still exist due to fishermen and being on public land (with some exceptions) there's some trails that abut or go on private land in parts and most of those have been officially abandoned
fishermen live by their own rules