Tioga State Forest

The spring house is still standing, and her grandson keeps his fishing bait in it.

Buck season in Pennsylvania opens the Monday after Thanksgiving, and in nineteen sixty-seven, Clayton and his cousin Bud spent the first three days of it in a camp near Latonia in the Tioga State Forest above Pine Creek.

There was about four inches of snow on the ground.

On the third afternoon, they'd been sitting on opposite sides of a hollow since daylight without seeing a legal buck, and at half past four, they met at the bottom to walk out together.