Overview:

The Logging Show starts at 1:00 p.m. Saturday, July 27. People can sign up to compete in ax-throwing, bucking, and log rolling. 

Outside, adjacent to Harriet Hall, rocks line a water-filled pit to reduce drainage. A crowd gathers in this part of the fairgrounds better known as the Logging Area during the Southeast Alaska State Fair. 

Floating inside the pit is a 20” diameter spruce log. On opposite ends, over 12 feet away at…

Francisco Martínezcuello is the Chilkat Valley News summer reporter. Previously, he was in Southwest Alaska working for KYUK Public Media as a News Reporting Fellow from November 2022 through January...