Vaughn third grader Jose Reyes finds the brilliantly white Angora rabbit downright cuddly. The rabbit was part of the petting zoo at Old Timers’ Day.
Photo by Hugh McMillan

The “vertical block chop” trial consists of two 12 to 14 inch diameter, roughly 30 inch long, bark free log sections mounted upright with heavy duty bolts to two separate stands. At the start signal, two muscular loggers, Les’ Kyle in foreground and his brother Tony Kyle in back began swinging razor sharp broad blade axes at their individual blocks sent dinner plate chunks of wood whistling into space as they raced to be first to dismember the targets.
Photo by Hugh McMillan

Music is OK but tree climbing is more fun said Alyssa, 4, and Kelsey, 2, Garcia, of Glen Cove, Annaka Sibley, 4, of Evergreen Elementary pre-school, Jayden Short, 7, a Vaughn Elementary 2nd grader, Matthew Lux, 9, visiting here from Snohomish, and 11 year old Chris’ Boland visiting from Virginia. The kids literally hung around at Beyond Borders.
Photo by Hugh McMillan

The Percussion Intermission group led by Dale Loy, fourth from left, and made up of Dianne Gnegh, Hilary Earnst, Voski Sprague, Dan Baldwin, Steve Davis, and Steve Taylor pour out a smooth demanding beat at Beyond Borders.
Photo by Hugh McMillan

5.       Kris Sherman introduces Dr. Bill Roes to a Petting Zoo star. Photo by Danna Webster

5.       Logging camp bull boss and show organizer Dale Boquist. Photo by Danna Webster

      “Choker-setting,” where loggers,one at a time carrying a steel “choke” cable, tight-rope walk the length of a skinny cantilevered bobbing pole to wrap it around and lock it on the swaying wood without falling off to the delight and guffaws of their detractors. Chip Chandler of Palmer Lake jigged when he should have jagged, lost his balance, dropped his choke cable as he went over the side but did not touch the ground, and with the perspicacity of a hungry tiger, hung on to the bouncing log, recovered his cable, set his choke, slithered back and righted himself to run back to the starting line as is required. Alas, turns out his time was not the fastest recorded that day. Photo by Hugh McMillan