Posted by: Kim_Hamilton on 09/01/2008 03:10 PM
Updated by: Kim_Hamilton on 09/03/2008 11:08 AM
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It Was Another Success Story for the 13th Annual Logging Jamboree~By Kim Hamilton
White Pines, CA...The Grounds of the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum were filled again this year for the 13th Annual Sierra Nevada Logging Jamboree. The Museum Board and organizers did another wonderful job planning and hosting the event. Top Logger of The Year honors went to George Harrison Jr. of Grass Valley. For his efforts over two days of competitions he received a beautiful Chrome Throwing Axe. They had Axe Throwing, Cross Cut Sawing, Chain Saw Cutting, Museum Tours and more. It is a fun day for the entire family. Smokey Bear stopped by to visit with the kids and warn them about fire danger. Saturday Night the grounds were filled with the Music of Joni Morris. The Sierra Nevada Logging Museum really is a world class museum that is continuously expanding it's scope. They are hard at work on a Tuolumne County Logging History Section and of course when they have their Shay Locomotive is finished you will be able to take rides back in time and also into the woods on the proposed track. So mark you calendars and make plans for next years Jamboree and make sure you stop by the museum as well. We have lots of video and photos for you to take a gander at.... And you thought only the Olympics had "Pairs" Competitions
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The Museums Website is a gold mine of logging and historical information. John Hofstetter has done a fabulous job putting it all together Give them a visit at Their Site!
We would like to thank Steve Kafka for sending us the results of the competition.
"Top Logger of the Year" first place goes to George Harrison Jr. of Grass Valley
Second place goes to George Harrison Sr., also of Grass Valley
Third place was a tie between Mike Morrow and Bill Antill, both of North Fork
For "Top Logger of the Year", George Jr. received a chromed throwing axe.
The event was well attended, and was enjoyed by those who attended.
I couldn't pull off the event without the help of Doug and Geri DuBois and Dave and Bev Finn. I would also like to say thanks to Sierra Pacific Industries and Tanner Logging for providing the logs to compete on.
A not-often-enough-visited treasure is the Sierra Nevada Logging Museum owned and operated by the Friends of the Logging Museum, a non-profit group dedicated to preserving the history and heritage of the timber industry in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Our Museum is located in Arnold, CA just off of Highway 4 in Calaveras County. Our mission is to represent, preserve, and disseminate information about the Timber Industry in all 18 Sierra Nevada ....
Counties. The museum opened three years ago, this coming Labor Day. The museum on the site of a former logging mill that moved down here from Calpine in 1938, and the volunteers have done a good job of telling the story of logging in the 1930's, and presenting the history of the mill upon whose site the museum building rests, plus a history of the other major Calaveras County mills. The museum’s web site is quite extensive, and we've made some progress on our neighboring counties, but the site is still short on counties other than Calaveras. . One of the big attractions that is still being worked on is the old Number 4 Shay Locomotive that the volunteers are restoring.
Take a look:
www.sierraloggingmuseum.org.
"We continue to work on adding information about all the counties we're supposed to represent, but it is a slow process. One of the big attractions that is still being worked on is the old Number 4 Shay Locomotive that the volunteers are restoring."
The Logging Museum’s biggest event and biggest money raiser is the Labor Day weekend event is the annual Logging Jamboree.
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