Squamish Days Logger Sports Festival
bySquamish Days are coming up July 31st through August 4th as the community celebrates 100 Years of Squamish and the 57th annual Squamish Days Logger Sports Festival. The weekend will be packed with fun for the whole family, from participation in a 10km run to sitting back and enjoying a wacky parade and live music, showcasing Squamish’s rich history and vibrant community spirit.
Squamish Days
Participate in the following events around town:
What: Campfire Showdown
When: Thursday, July 31, 2014 at 6:30pm
Where: On The Farm Country Market
What: World Championship Chair Carve
When: Friday, August 1, 2014 at 3:00pm
Where: Squamish Station Mall
What: Squamish Days Bed Races
When: Friday, August 1, 2014 at 7:00pm
Where: Cleveland Avenue, Downtown Squamish
What: Squamish Days Festival Parade
When: Sunday, August 3, 2014 at 11:00am
Where: Cleveland Avenue, Downtown Squamish
What: Squamish Days 10km Run and Flashback Mile
When: Sunday, August 3, 2014
(Registration 6:30am-8:00am)
Where: Howe Sound Secondary School (Start & Finish)
Logger Sports Events
The following events and competitions will take place over at the Squamish Logger Sports Grounds (39555 Loggers Lane) from July 31st to August 4th: Tree Climbing; Tree Topping; Birling; Chokerman’s Race; Axe Throwing; Underhand Chop; Butcher Block Chop; Obstacle Pole Bucking; Springboard Chop; Hand Bucking; Speed Bucking; Standing Block Chop; Tree Falling; Ladies Triple; and the Team Relay
Win The Ultimate Squamish Summertime Experience
This Outdoor Recreation Capital of Canada, known for its windsurfing, kitesurfing, Stawamus Chief hiking, delicious craft beer, and shiny new Sea to Sky Gondola is no longer simply a pit stop for coffee on the way to or from Whistler. It’s safe to say that while it’s always been fun to visit, Squamish is becoming even more of an activity hot spot for those who love the West Coast.
To celebrate, the Squamish Days Logger Sports Festival and Squamish2014 have offered up “The Ultimate Squamish Summertime Experience” for me to give away to one lucky Miss604 reader. This prize pack includes:
- 1 night accommodation at the Executive Suites Squamish*
- 2 tickets to the Sunday Loggers Sports Show
- 2 Squamish Days T-Shirts
- A Gillespies Distillery Fine Spirits VIP Tour for 2
- 2 Sea to Sky Gondola Adult Lift Tickets
- 1 Sea to Sky Air Flight for 2*
- Mountain Bike Rental for 2 from Sea to Sky Adventure Co.
- 1 Round of Mini Golf at Whistle Punk Hollow for 2
Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment naming a Squamish Days event (1 entry)
- Share/Link this post on Facebook (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
Follow Squamish Days on Facebook and Twitter for more information.
The winner will receive all of these prizes (vouchers) in one giant gift pack courtesy of the Squamish Days Logger Sports Festival. *Blackout dates apply and/or based on availability. Contest ends Sunday, July 6, 2014 at 5:00pm.
Update The winner is Tanya H!
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The Festival Parade is the kids favourite – can’t wait for this year’s!!
Chair Carving Contest – sounds like fun!
Birling! Hahaha – that would be so awesome to watch!
Squamish days bed races
The whole Logger Sports Show! So intense!
Squamish Days bed races – love it!
Squamish Day Bed Races!
Axe throwing 🙂
Squamish Days Bed Races – what a way to celebrate my first BDay in Canada 🙂
Campfire Showdown!
Birling!
World Championship Chair Carve
Squamish Days Bed races which sound fun
Logger Sports Festival.
Axe Throwing!
Squamish Days Bed Races! Lots of fun.
Bed races! I feel like I race to my bed every night.
Campfire Showdown
Bed races!
Birling
the bed races and the chokermans race!!
the bed races
Festival Parade
World Championship Chair Carve – would be so cool to see again. I remember when they did something like this back in the day at the PNE.
Campfire showdown
The chair carving would be neat to see.
Campfire showdown, awesome!!
Squamish Days Festival Parade
Campfire showdown.
Squamish Days Festival Parade
Kids sports – we all have so much fun 🙂
Campfire Showdown—how awesome does that sound?!
Campfire showdown
10km run!
campfire showdown
World Championship Chair Carve
The Campfire Showdown sounds awesome — of course I would fail miserably.
Squamish Days Festival Parade!
World champion chair carve
Bed races!!!!
Squamish Days Festival Parade!
Chair carving
Beer Gardens were we all gather to cheer on all the loggers !(That is an event…RIGHT !)
beds races – Guaranteed to make you laugh!
Bed races!
Squamish Days bed races
Squamish Days Bed Races!!!
Campfire showdown
Campfire showdown
Birling
Campfire Showdown
Campfire Showdown !
Curious about the Campfire Showdown…
Bed Races!!!
Bed Races
Bed races!!!
Logger sports!
World Champion Chair Carve
Axe throwing!!
Squamish Days Bed Races = Fun every time
Bed races
Bed races!
Bed races! What a hoot!
Squamish Days 10km Run and Flashback Mile
I heard Paula the clown is going to be at logger sports.
Axe Throwing 🙂
Campfire Showdown
These are great events… and great prizes!!!!
I don’t know what birling is but the whole Logger Sports Show sounds like a lot of fun!
Logger Sports SHow FTW!!
sign me up
Campfire Showdown!!
Bed races! Always wanted to see one live!
Wacky bed races
Axe throwing!
Bed Races.
Axe throwing!
Axe throwing
Campfire throwdown!
I tweeted 🙂
https://twitter.com/raincouverbblog/status/483118807154565120
Squamish Day Bed Races!
Axe Throwing
The logger’s STOMP
Whistle Punk Hollow mini golf. I am willing to travel all the way from kansas city, missouri for this festival.
I wanna go there.
Axe Throwing!
Squamish Days Bed Races
I haven’t been to Loggers sports since I moved in 1985. I always enjoyed the chair carving especially when they gave it to a kid in the audience.
Campfire Showdown!
Axe Throwing
Bed races.
Squamish Days Bed Races
bed races
squamish days bed race
I’m moving to Squamish soon- I would love to see the Squamish Days Festival Parade! 🙂
Logger Sports Show
event: Loggers Sports
the wacky bed races
Festival parade…will be there with bells on ! 🙂
The wacky bed races!
watching the competitors climb those 80 ft poles…..dizzying. more courage to them!!!
I want to be at Squamish Days Logger Sports Festival!
Squamish Days Bed Races 🙂
Thanks!
Squamish Days Bed Races
We love the Squamish Days Parade!
Bed races
Axe throwing!
bed races!!
Bed races!!
Just met someone from Squamish on Canada Day. it would be a great reason to visit.
Bed races
Springboard chop!
Campfire showdown
Never been. This sounds fun!
Day Bed Races sound interesting!
Squamish Days Bed Races
Squamish Days Bed Races!! – we had bed races in my hometown when I was a kid – I thought that it was a northern thing
The Bed Races are my favourite thing !
Love the chair carving.
Squamish Days Festival Parade – makes you proud to live in such a fabulous community
Bed races! Fun!!!
I love the parade!!
Tree climbing
Chair Carve!
Squamish Days Bed Races
Campfire Showdown – awesome.
bed races!
Bed races would be fun to watch!
Tree topping!
Bed races. Wahoo!
The parade… This will be the first yr here in bc to attend loggers sports for us and the children.
10k run
Bed races!!!
Axe throwing, yikes!
Squamish Days Bed Races – Fun !
My kids would love to see the axe throwing!
Chair Carving Contest
Bed races
Squamish days look sooooo fun
sign me up to enter to win an ultimate Squamish experience from @SquamishDays @Squamish2014 + @Miss604
The Beard Pageant!!! I love beards SOOOOO much!!!!
The beard pageant!!!
Curious about the bed races!
Paula the Clown