Comments on: And Another One Bites The Dust http://www.tenmilerivertrader.com/blog/2007/11/12/and-another-one-bites-the-dust/ Collecting Ten Mile River, one patch at a time Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:35:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ron Steinbach http://www.tenmilerivertrader.com/blog/2007/11/12/and-another-one-bites-the-dust/comment-page-1/#comment-29376 Ron Steinbach Wed, 01 Oct 2008 20:10:11 +0000 http://www.tenmilerivertrader.com/blog/?p=77#comment-29376 I went to camp there in the late 40's and early 50's. Yeah the Indian cliffs were great, and part way down there were shallow caves, and when you finally got to where you were going to camp by the Delaware river you could see the freight trains in the distance in Pennsylvania, and all night hear their horns blasting. I remember taking along a 10 can of apple butter and bread for our meals, and making a leanto out of pine needles. The only time I knew of was in the winter of 1949, TMR had a winter camp, over the Christmas Vacation. Because all the water was shut off we had to go by truck into town and fill up milk cans with water to cook and drink. I don't remember which building we all slept in, but it was big and it had double bunks down each side of the room. We celebrated the new year for 1950 by building a a 49 and a 50, out of logs and setting the 49 on fire at midnight on a pond .We had a patch made up and I will try to find it and post it. Great memories Ron I went to camp there in the late 40′s and early 50′s. Yeah the Indian cliffs were great, and part way down there were shallow caves, and when you finally got to where you were going to camp by the Delaware river you could see the freight trains in the distance in Pennsylvania, and all night hear their horns blasting. I remember taking along a 10 can of apple butter and bread for our meals, and making a leanto out of pine needles.
The only time I knew of was in the winter of 1949, TMR had a winter camp, over the Christmas Vacation. Because all the water was shut off we had to go by truck into town and fill up milk cans with water to cook and drink. I don’t remember which building we all slept in, but it was big and it had double bunks down each side of the room. We celebrated the new year for 1950 by building a a 49 and a 50, out of logs and setting the 49 on fire at midnight on a pond .We had a patch made up and I will try to find it and post it.
Great memories

Ron

]]> By: james boone http://www.tenmilerivertrader.com/blog/2007/11/12/and-another-one-bites-the-dust/comment-page-1/#comment-22868 james boone Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:12:48 +0000 http://www.tenmilerivertrader.com/blog/?p=77#comment-22868 WoW, i'm so sorry to see kunatah close down. I was there from maybe 93 to 98 and my uncle was there every summer since 1976. I can still smell the mess hall and the lake and that veiw from the indian cliffs was priceless. I have so many memories from there but the best memories are from walking from kunatah all the way to the deleware river and camping out there. wow WoW, i’m so sorry to see kunatah close down. I was there from maybe 93 to 98 and my uncle was there every summer since 1976. I can still smell the mess hall and the lake and that veiw from the indian cliffs was priceless. I have so many memories from there but the best memories are from walking from kunatah all the way to the deleware river and camping out there. wow

]]> By: chrismv http://www.tenmilerivertrader.com/blog/2007/11/12/and-another-one-bites-the-dust/comment-page-1/#comment-16209 chrismv Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:47:05 +0000 http://www.tenmilerivertrader.com/blog/?p=77#comment-16209 Sad day, This is sad news. Rock Lake without Scouts on it! My father went to camp there in the 30's. My four brothers and I went there in the 60's at Chappagat and for the 70's and 80's at Kunatah. It was always nice to be away from the other camps. Off in the more hilly terrain along the Delaware. I went back there in 2005 with my wife and went by the camp. It looked great then. We asked permission and they let us go up to the Indian Cliffs. So does Kunatah go the way all those other camps around there have gone? I remember the Chappagat open-air mess hall. They showed films at night on a 16mm projector. WC Fields! Time was so endless there. I was there as a scout or a leader from 1972 to 1985 and I can still smell the place. I remember that old mess hall up on the Indian Cliffs that had been abandoned for years when I saw it in the 70's. It's really a special place, the woods are really dark and deep around there. I can't imagine the Scouts losing their connection to the Indian Cliffs and the Delaware river. Sad day,
This is sad news. Rock Lake without Scouts on it! My father went to camp there in the 30′s. My four brothers and I went there in the 60′s at Chappagat and for the 70′s and 80′s at Kunatah. It was always nice to be away from the other camps. Off in the more hilly terrain along the Delaware. I went back there in 2005 with my wife and went by the camp. It looked great then. We asked permission and they let us go up to the Indian Cliffs. So does Kunatah go the way all those other camps around there have gone? I remember the Chappagat open-air mess hall. They showed films at night on a 16mm projector. WC Fields! Time was so endless there. I was there as a scout or a leader from 1972 to 1985 and I can still smell the place. I remember that old mess hall up on the Indian Cliffs that had been abandoned for years when I saw it in the 70′s.
It’s really a special place, the woods are really dark and deep around there. I can’t imagine the Scouts losing their connection to the Indian Cliffs and the Delaware river.

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