We're not ones to plan a lot of our travels around sporting events. However, we made an exception for the Lumberjack World Championships in Hayward, WI. We ordered our tickets early in 2021 and booked our campground about 30 miles north in Drummond, WI. Drummond Lake Campground is run by the town, has some full hookup sites and is nice and quiet.
The lumberjack championships was well-orchestrated. It seemed there was an event going almost all the time. While they were cleaning the sawing deck between sawing events, you were watching the log rolling or the boom running. A bit to our surprise, most of the events were in the evening, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Axe throwing was a notable exception, and many of the preliminaries were run in the afternoon.
We went with our friends Kevin and Tammy. It's good that we are close friends because those bleachers in the Lumberjack Bowl, a site on the National Historic Register, were not very comfortable. You were shoulder-to-shoulder and knee-to-knee on those wooden seats. Those foam log cross-section seat cushions in the souvenir gift shop were hot ticket items.
I think each of us had a different competition as our favorite. The 90-ft pole climb and descent is almost as scary to watch as the axe cutting. Log rolling and boom running would elicit groans as competitors ending up in the water, and the hot saw competition brought out gleams in the eyes of the guys. Yo Ho! Time to cheer your favorite competitor.
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| The 81-year-old did get a head start |
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| Yo Ho! |
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