There are more, and same of them I can't tell, but another: How they used to get to camp.
The oldtimers would wait for the train in Homewood and it would take them and their gear up to Sinnamahoning and drop them off. Years previously that had cut a path up over the mountain for a couple miles to the flats. Then a couple more across the top, then a mile or so down into camp. Every year the path needed cleared of downed trees and chain saws had yet to be invented. The State owned the land and could care less.
A farmer would meet them in Sinnamahoning with a wagon team of mules and they would load up their gear and make the ride into camp. Two weeks later he would ride into camp, they would load up again for the trip back to Sinnamahoning and wait along the tracks for the train to come and take them home.
A trip to camp during small game or for fishing was a repeat.
Boy guys, this sounds familiar! Dad used to talk about a camp his dad was a part of up along Lake Erie somwhere over towards New York. They'd take the train in as close as they could get and then pay a teamster to take them the rest of the way in by horse and wagon. Dad couldn't tell me a whole lot about the camp, just that deer were very scarce, and if they found a track, they'd camp out on it overnight if necessary to catch up with it next day. The weapons were double barrel shotguns and black powder guns.
