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- Authors: Slade James
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Gunner and I stood on the snowy field brandishing our axes
overhead.
Drunken hoots, wolf whistles, and scattered applause
erupted from the crowd of men gathered to watch the logsplitting competition. Even though it was only one in the
afternoon, most of the spectators were already hammered on
hot toddies.
Interspersed among the enthusiastic cries of “Gunner!”
and “Hank!” were the inevitable wood puns.
“That’s a lot of fucking uncut wood, boys!” someone
shouted.
There was no telling how many more times we’d hear
that line today.
Smoke floated through the air across the campground
from the lodge at the top of the mountain, the cabins
studding the surrounding low hills, and the firepits on some
of the elaborate decks around the trailers in the RV park. It
mingled with steam clouds escaping the bathhouses around
the resort, especially the one near the pool where men kept
running in and out to warm up after being outside in the
chilly January breeze, watching the festivities. “Warming
up” in the sauna—not to mention trudging a half mile back
uphill to the lodge after a day spent drinking—was as much
a sport as any of the Jackolympics events.
During the busy
summer months, the level field between the pool complex
and the RV park was the site of impromptu touch football
games and Saturday night bonfires, but during the offseason it was the perfect open area for the Jackolympics.
Calling it the Jackolympics made it sound pretty grand—
and maybe it would one day grow into something bigger—
but this wasn’t anything close to the annual Lumberjack
World Championships that were held up north in the
summer.
The property around Bear Mountain Lodge didn’t
boast a body of water large enough for boom running or
logrolling. As for speed climbing a pole… Well, around here
that conjured up an entirely different physical activity.
There were four of us regularly hired on to do lumberjack
duty: me, Gunner, Albie, and Kevin. Behind the scenes, we all
did a little bit of everything from collecting fallen timber—
the owner didn’t allow any active logging in any of the oldgrowth wooded areas on the property—to sawing, splitting,
hauling, and stacking firewood.
Only a few of these activities were compelling enough to
qualify as timber sports. The Jackolympics was a glorified
excuse to turn our work into a party and a draw for guests
during the off-season.
A large group of locals, regulars, and
RV tenants usually came for New Year’s Eve, but after that…
a naked campground in the North Georgia mountains wasn’t
much of a winter vacation destination.
It had started as a friendly competition between the four
of us to make the work a little more fun. Our general
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