The World Lumberjack Championships are held in Hayward, WI, a mere 20 min South of Cable. Garrott, Brian & I went to watch Friday afternoon. I remained entertained & impressed the entire time we were there. I decided that I should probably learn how to be a lumberjack if I wanted to be proud of myself. They had speed pole climbing competitions where the competitors climbed to the top of a 90' pole and returned to the ground in just over 20 seconds. There were also log rolling competitions and boom running races, and I learned that a lumberjack cheer is "yo-ho!" Of course, there was lots of sawing and chopping too; crosscut sawing races and chopping. I liked the springboard competition where they had to chop a place for the springboard, insert the board, climb up and stand on it, repeat, and then chop the top of the tree off. We also watched a slight (not all these lumberjack types are big) girl from Spokane, WA named Erin Lavoie set a world record in the underhand chop. They call it the World Champs but only New Zealand, U.S., and Canada are represented.