Logging sports. Because once not-August-but-feels-like-August weather is over, it’s time for saws and axes.
If you wear plaid, flannels and suspenders – – and head to at 2015 Market St. Saturday Nov. 8, you’ll get a free Coors for your sartorial efforts, starting at 2 p.m. and probably ending around 6 p.m. You get in the door free, but donations are suggested with proceeds going to (ELK). (Hat tip to for spreading the word about this event.) And you’ll get to watch the Colorado State University Logging Sports team.
will see events such as the double buck and single buck, which involve those cartoon-like, 7.5-foot long saws wielded by 2-person teams or individuals, and the “Logger’s Lift,” which involves cookies. Not digital cookies, nor Girl Scout cookies. To loggers, “cookies” are round discs sawn from trees. These cookies will weigh 20-30 pounds, and whoever holds them out the longest? Well, CSU senior and Logging Sports Team member Jake Wieliezkiewicz (say it Vee-ella-SKE-vitch) says there’ll be prizes.
Wieliezkiewicz says his fave brand of racing axe – yes, too – is Keech. “ They’re kind of the best racing axes around.” But the non-motorized saws for the single and double buck “are basically relics, from pawn shops. They’re old-school – 60, 70, 80 years old. For chainsaws, we are all Stihl” – particularly the 441 Magnum. Wieliezkiewicz said he hopes to bring some cool tools to the Viewhouse, but was waiting for more detailed authorization because of potential safety issues. The Viewhouse says those are being sussed out, and the bladed sports will be corralled safely in a corner.
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