Registration Opens for Lumberjack Survival Summit

Published on: 2015/09/16 - in Featured Releases

Have you always wanted to be a lumberjack? Now’s your chance! Registration is now open for autumn’s biggest challenge event, the Lumberjack Survival Summit.

In celebration of the presentation of Timber! at the Grand Theatre, the MacLachlan Woodworking Museum is hosting its first Lumberjack Survival Summit Oct. 24 to 25.

Participants must be 18 years and older and can register at the Grand Theatre box office or by visiting woodworkingmuseum.ca/event/lumberjack-survival-summit.

Register by Sept. 23 with the promo code EARLYBIRD and save $25 off the $160 registration fee. Registration cost includes all workshops, food, campsite and an official LSS shirt.

Discover if you have what it takes to face the extreme conditions and grueling tasks of a Canadian logging camp. Build your own two-day schedule by selecting from over 16 break out workshops taught by experts in their field, designed to hone your skills in the areas of camping, cooking, tools and woodworking, orienteering, emergency medicine and more.

Learn how to brew beer, use a compass, eat bugs, paddle a canoe, start a fire without matches, shave with a straight razor and other skills for your daily urban lumberjack life. All plaids welcome and no experience required!

Get all the details at woodworkingmuseum.ca/event/lumberjack-survival-summit.

About the City of Kingston

The City of Kingston provides municipal services to 125,000 residents living in this visually stunning, historic city, often ranked one of the best places to live in Canada. In 2014, it was named a Top 7 Smart Community by the Intelligent Community Forum. Kingston is focusing on being smart and livable as it pursues its vision to become Canada’s most sustainable city.

We focus on environmental responsibility, social equity, economic health and cultural vitality – – ensuring that today’s decisions don’t compromise our future.

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Release source: City of Kingston | Photo: BrittGow (cc)

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