Collegiate Timbersports events
Channel: Inconvenience Today
Date: 17/03/2023

When I was about 15 and learned that there was college-level competitive sawing, chopping, fire building, and other outdoorsy activities, I knew exactly what school I wanted to go to so that I could join their team. I saw the Finger Lakes Timbersports team do an exhibition at the scout camp I frequented and set my hopes on one day being on the team. Looking back 30 years on those times, it's notable how much of that experience shaped my future. Later work for the USFS, joining a volunteer Fire Department, even moving to Alaska could all be traced back to those decisions. 

So five years ago a group of us mustered some much older bodies (with more than a few replaced joints) and showed that we may be alumni on the older side, we've still got some skills. 

See some of what collegiate team events like crosscut, bowsaw, pulp toss, log roll, and packboard relay are. Check out the horizontal and vertical chop, the splitting, pole climb, disc stack with a chainsaw, canoeing events, and see if some wisdom comes with our age.

Chainsaw image: Image by macrovector on Freepik