>>2323941I don't think there is actually any risk to a negligence lawsuit if someone were injured hiking on their property. I mean if someone were like an employee of a logging company hired to work on the land and the company acted recklessly, maybe, but that's a different thing.
Was kinda an unfriendly area - beautiful.
Anyways I picked it because it was an old logging railroad - I like to check historical topo maps to find them - running along a fairly small tributary and the WV historical site had some beautiful old pictures of the railroad when it was active and a waterfall on the creek. I'm just happy I got to see the creek.
What I found interesting was that there were NOT posted signs right on the main creek (not the tributary I wanted to hike the logging road of) - at least where there were multiple gravel pull-offs to park by the side of the road. Roads are public - and water is public so I guess even these faceless national corporations don't really stop local fishermen from accessing the rivers themselves and we saw plenty of fishing going on.
I'll have some pictures up in a few days when I get done editing them if anyone's interested.
It's just really disappointing that most of the land has been sucked up by these giant corporations and the holdings by actual individuals are relatively tiny.
