In the early days, men washed their clothes in an iron kettle outside in the snow. If they took a bath, it too was done out-of-doors. By the 1930s men washed themselves and their clothes under a shed called the "dingle" located between the mess hall and the sleeping area.

Loggers were extraordinary eaters. Their usual diet consisted of salt pork, baked beans and bread.



Pies, cakes, cookies, and donuts accompanied many meals. All meals were consumed in silence at pine or spruce tables covered with oilcloth.

After a fourteen-hour day in the woods, the men returned to camp for their evening meal. When supper was over, they lit their pipes; played card games; swapped stories; sang popular songs or made up their own ballads. Loggers often played fiddles, banjos, guitars, and harmonicas. Clog dancing sometimes added to their enjoyment.

In addition to the cookhouse and bunkroom, buildings in a logging camp included a log barn for horses, a blacksmith shop, an office for the boss, and usually a store known as the "van" where the men bought shoes, mittens, stockings, or tobacco.

Lumber camps resembled small villages.