My husband was the one who really wanted to see the Paul Bunyan Lumberjack Show at the NC State Fair this year. As he scanned the daily schedule, he spotted it and talked it up to our girls, who weren ...

CELEBRATION, Fla. — Who's light on their feet, quick on the draw and can power through 20-inch logs in a matter of seconds? It's this year's SuperJack competitors in ESPN's Great Outdoor Games ...

Oct. 9—ELKINS — An ax strike chips pieces of wood off of the long timber log Arden Cogar Jr. is chopping. He's already fallen behind the two other lumberjacks, and one of them has already felled their ...

MERRIMACK – Dark Horse Lumberjack Shows, an enterprise headed by Ben Marshall of Greenland and an avid team of lumberjacking enthusiasts, drew competitors from dozens of states and around a thousand ...

In a backstage dressing room, giant, bearded, thick-necked men are getting ready to compete. The air reeks of body odor and ethanol fuel. One burly man gently thumbs his ax to check for any dull spots ...

Matt Cogar earns six figures in prize money every year as a professional lumberjack athlete. Lumberjack Matt Cogar poses after this year’s win at the Stihl Timbersports U.S. Championship. All photos ...

HARRISBURG — It wasn’t Cameron McDonald’s first time watching a lumberjack show, and the 5-year-old is often found helping Dad with projects in the family’s workshop. Still, the boy from Charles Town, ...

Imagine brawny, tree-climbing men armed with super-charged buzz saws and razor-sharp axes. You can look forward to these sights and more as old-time forestry meets the thrills of competition at the ...

The scent of woodsmoke could be traced to a backyard temple of towering elms, tangled bushes, logs like ruined columns, coins of wood, berms of wood, shavings, bark. And partly hidden by flora was a ...

The traditional springboard event makes its debut this year at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games and will feature an international field of champions. Typically one of the most grueling timber events, the ...