My camera is broken. So none of these pictures are mine. Most of them were taken by my family. Hopefully I’ll post some more pictures as more come in, but this is what it is for now. I might sometime actually write a wrap-up of the weekend, but for now, just the pictures. Dave and [...]
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Spring Meet 2007
Posted in Chopping Stuff, Making/Building/Fixing Stuff on April 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
McGill Winter Meet
Posted in Chopping Stuff, Getting Lost on February 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend – last weekend in January in the good new year of 2007 – 18 of us intrepid Dartmouth Woodsmen headed up to the far reaches of Quebec to participate in the Winter Woodsmens Meet at McGill University. After getting lost for about an hour on the winding highways, interestates, on- and off-ramps in [...]
Fire and Snow
Posted in Chopping Stuff, Making/Building/Fixing Stuff, Winter on January 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Went out to Oak Hill with friends to have a fire and hot dogs and smores. Took a while to get the fire going – lots of wet wood. Too long – I was embarrased. alas. But we got ‘er done, and had a lovely time hanging out. Also noticed some strange lights coming out [...]
Of Mud and Men
Posted in Chopping Stuff, Making/Building/Fixing Stuff on May 21, 2006 | 5 Comments »
The privy buildling that started at spring break was supposed to have come to an end on Saturday. For the previous two months we had planned on getting our final timberframe privy on Smarts Mountain done and assembled on the 20th. But we didn’t count on two straight weeks of rain – the worst rains [...]
The World’s Largest Axe
Posted in Being a tourist, Chopping Stuff on April 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
On the way back from the Spring Woodsmen’s Meet in Truro, Nova Scotia, we saw a sign for something we could not pass up. It was the home to the “World’s Largest Axe.” Now what self-respecting lover-of-axes could pass that up? Not me, nor my three companions in our truck. It was an amazing axe [...]
