Easter ride

So then the rocky side up the mountain is actually called coalmine? Gotcha.

Is anyone else going up that way?

 Where is the Dry Creek side or how do you get to it?  I hunt on Dry Creek road county road 4, its where Mt. Nebo church is.

 

I and three other guys wound up on that route once, coming down from the top.  We were stopped and escorted off the property by a landowner.  It wasnt at gunpoint, but he had a gun, and he basically told us that we could go out with him or Richard Brown (the major property owner at the base of the mtn) would have us arrested.  We left and havent been back.

 

TECHNICALLY its tresspassing.  Part of the stairsteps trail is actually a county road, but not all of it, and once you get off the county ROW, you're on private property, no different than someone's yard in Cliff Cove subdivision.  The issue is whether or not the actual landowners want to push the tresspass.  Its my understanding of the law in Alabama (and I am no lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express....once....) if you are on someone's property, and its not your property, if you dont have written permission from that landowner in your possession, you are tresspassing.  But someone has to a) catch you and b) press the charge.  Generally, no one does unless they have some reason to do so.  Also, in Alabama, you cannot prevent someone from accessing their legally owned/deeded property - but that access does not have to be convenient.  As as far as I know, this does NOT apply to a lease.

 

Again, this is anecdotal, from talking to a lawyer and from talking to someone who manages lots of the land in the area in question.

 

Some will say, "I've been going there for years!"  So what, that means nothing.  This country's laws are based on private ownership of land, and the laws and law-enforcement folks all must respect that private ownership...most of the time.  You go there purley at the pleasure of the landowners whose land you are crossing.