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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

postheadericon Beautiful Farm Countryside of Remote Mountainous West Virginia Near Spruce Knob

Beautiful Farm Countryside of Remote Mountainous West Virginia Near Spruce Knob Video Clips. Duration : 9.85 Mins.


I was driving around, searching for the elusive Sinks of Gandy cave, which I knew was near Spruce Knob, but I just didn't know precisely where. As I drove deeper and deeper into the remote wilderness, I began to see fewer and fewer people and houses. There are only a couple buildings to be seen in this video, and even those have solar panels on poles standing in the back yard, a testament to the remoteness of the area. At 6:20 in the video, I passed one of the few buildings that I saw in the area. Actually it looked like a barn pus a house, both of which appeared to be ffenced-in. Also, note in the video that at no time do you see any light poles or overhead power cables. The area apparently was far too remote and uinhabited to allow for power lines. The house I passed at 6:20 had a solar cell panel next to it. At 6:50 into the video you'll see a lone wandering calf which had somehow managed to escape from one of the fenced-in fields which were on both sides of the road. At 7:13 is an image of Yokum Knob, which is easily visible from the road. Other images are captured later on in the video, and is more clearly seen at 8:30. And at 7:54 is a small pull-off to the right, which is a farm access road which leads to the entrance to the cave that runs under the road I was driving upon. The exit to the cave, as determined by the water flow going through the cave, is on the left side of the road, as determined by the direction of the car in the video. I stopped the car and got ...

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