Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A competitor tries to grab a flag as he falls off the "gostra", a wooden pole covered in lard, during the main competition, part ...

Earl Barnes of Anderson, on leave from serving at Fort Stewart with the U.S. Army, gives his best log toss contest attempt during the 57th annual Hillbilly Day in Mountain Rest on the Fourth of July. ...

PG&E installed two 80-foot wood poles at Cal Poly to help the university’s logging team host a national forestry competition in 2026, where pole-climbing will be the main sport. Courtesy of PG&E Cal ...

ST JULIAN'S, Malta (Reuters) - For more than a century, locals in the small Maltese town of St Julian's have celebrated their patron saint by running up a steeply angled log, smeared with lard, ...