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Cindy Cardiff
By Darcy Nybo
Get ready for five days of action, fun and excitement with a little bit of everything for the whole family. From July 30th to August 3rd, come out and enjoy all our events including two world-class Loggers Sports Shows with competitors from all around the world.
The 58th annual Squamish Day Loggers Sports Festival invites you to come enjoy a pancake breakfast, a parade, music and art events, children’s activities, wacky bed races, and a 10K run. This event showcases Squamish’s rich heritage, and its strong and vibrant community spirit. It’s so popular; crews from TSN’s Lumberjacks Series have come in the past and will return again in 2015!
The festival got its start as a one day Loggers Sports Competition in 1957 and has become a huge draw to the Squamish area over the BC Day Long weekend.
The fun starts on Thursday, July 30, with the Campfire Showdown at the On The Farm Country Market. This official kick off to the Squamish Days weekend has local teams of two competing to build a fire that boils a can of water over first!
Friday begins with the Squamish Station World Championship Chair Carve. Carving starts at 3 p.m. with judging and chair auction at 5 p.m. If you don’t want to get a chair, check out Into the Woods wearable art show at the Whistle Shop Boutique. Then it’s off to the Summer Night Street Party with shopping, the Squamish Days Bed Races, and live music and entertainment. The bed race is a whacky competition where 5-person teams navigate a 2-block course filled with challenges and obstacles in goofy costumes!
Rest up, because Saturday is packed with lots to see and do. Norman Foote, renowned children’s entertainer with be here and there are games and races for the kids starting at 9:30 a.m. At 1:30 p.m. the Novice and Intermediate Loggers Sports Show gives competitors a chance to move up in the ranks. During the show be sure to take in the Rotary Beef Barbeque, a Squamish Days tradition for over 50 years now. It’s something visitors and locals alike look forward to every year. Those who want to take it easy can head to the rec centre for Bingo. Then at 6:00 p.m., outside Chances Casino, watch as 30 entrants compete to take home bragging rights as the best axe thrower around. Finish the night off with the Logger’s Stomp Dance at the Match Eatery and Public House. Live music and lots of adult fun.
Don’t overdo it on Saturday, or you’ll miss the Logger’s Pancake Breakfast, with pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and milk served up from 7 - 11 a.m. The Squamish Days 10K run starts at 8:30 a.m. The route is easy to run and wheelchair friendly. For those just getting into running there’s the Flashback Mile at 8:45 a.m. this event is popular with the kids too, so you can make it a family run!
Settle in for the parade at 11 a.m. Categories this year include antique vehicles, commercial, log and heavy equipment, community, humorous, marching/drill team, mascot, animals, association/club and bands. Bring your folding chairs and your cameras.
Then it’s off to the Open Loggers Sports Show at 1:30 p.m. Come cheer on the choppers, the log rollers, the climbers, and the axe throwers. Make sure you stay for World Championship Tree Falling. There’s plenty of action and excitement for the whole family.
The Squamish Days Loggers Sports Show is one of the longest running community festivals in British Columbia. For 58 years it has been a completely non-profit festival run entirely by volunteers. It attracts competitors and spectators from all over the world. Most events are free to attend, and entry to the Loggers Sports Shows is very affordable. All money raised over the weekend goes back into the festival and to local Squamish charities.
Come with your friends and family and join our friends and family as we focus on Squamish’s rich heritage. Please be advised that you should book your hotels and camping early, as they usually fill up for the weekend. Come for the Squamish Days Loggers Sports Festival and stay for the Squamish Valley Music Festival, which starts August 6th.
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For more information about the Squamish Days Loggers Sports Festival visit the website at www.squamishdays.ca.