PHOTO OF THE DAY June 11, 2005  

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Where Forks, Washington State
When 1984
Photographer Sam Abell

Two competitors scramble up 60-foot (18-meter) poles in the speed-climbing event at a lumberjack tournament. Other events include log-rolling and sawing events.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Washington's Olympic Peninsula," May 1984, National Geographic magazine)


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