Käylä lumberjack weekend 9.-12.7.2025
Wed 9.7. Summer music evening at 6:00 PM: Käylän church singing & musical performances.
Parish waffle café at the church Thu-Sun 11:00 AM-5:00 PM
Fri 11.7. Jori's lumberjack skill course at 4:00 PM
Come learn from the master! Free admission, Myllysilta (Sallantie) Käylänkoski niska
Fri 11.7. Käylän Kymppi running event at 6:00 PM
A family-friendly running event organized by Käylän Kiri.
Sat 12.7. The lumberjack competitions starting at 11:00 AM
The disciplines include lumberjack marathon, rolling, lumberjack oath and the audience favorite, rafting.
There will be programs for children throughout the area.
Sat 12.7. Lumberjack Dances at Korpihovi at 8pm
Sami Roshholm & Sävel.
Dance ticket 20€, youth ticket (under 25 years) 10€.
Come to see excellent performances of lumberjacks
The lumberjack competition is organized in and around the Käylä rapids. The calm water competitions are held on the shore, i.e. three events: the lumberjak marathon, the rolling and the lumberjack whale.
In the first event of the lumberjack marathon, the boat is rowed around a buoy and the boat is pulled back to shore along the boom using a keksi, or a hooked-headed stick. The second event is log sestominen, or paddling to the end of the boom run. The third event is the boom run, which involves about a dozen logs connected by a chain. Before reaching the shore, there is a run, in which the logs are freely lined up in the water. The last part of the marathon is a cross-country run.
The second event of the calm water competitions is rolling, in which two competitors run on a large log and each must remain upright in their own area at the end of the log.
The third event of the Pacific Ocean Games, known as the log-whale race, is a speed race in which the competitor stands on a log and hits a biscuit upright on the log. After this, the competitor goes around the biscuit, goes to sip water from the river at one end of the log and then moves to the other end of the log.
The king of the rapids, rafting, is competed in at the Käylä rapids. It involves lowering a log down a rapid and the fastest rafter wins. When starting and reaching the finish line, the competitor must be standing on the log, and all sorts of exciting things can happen along the way.
Käylä lumberjack competition is included in the list of intangible cultural heritage of the National Board of Antiquities
Käylä lumberjack competition is in the list of intangible cultural heritage compiled by the National Board of Antiquities.
See the video from the year 2009.
