From 10 to 11 August 2024

71st Woody party

Event activity : Competition, Traditional festival, Festival

The 71st edition of France's oldest lumberjack competition takes place in 2024.
Objective: chop up as many logs as possible with an axe. Activities linked to woodworking, pastoralism, sheepdogs, craft fair.

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"Passe-Partout" association organizes the most ancien wood celebration in Chamrousse 1650 - Recoin.
A woodcutters contest : preliminary sessions with trunks and final with standing trees. Entertainment all weekend : shows announced all day on the spot.

SATURDAY
From 2pm:
- Entertainment around the forest and the wood
- Exhibition of tractors, quads...
- Crafts fair, regional products
- Pastoralism
- Chainsaw shows
- Passe-Partouts contest
- Non professional woodcutter contest

From 1.30 to 5.30 pm: municipal library stand
- Book box (free book exchange)
- Discovery of the history of the woodcutters' competition
- Meeting with authors of books about Chamrousse and Belledonne mountains: Christophe Roger, Maurice Dolmadjian and Sergueï Jirnov.

SUNDAY
From 11am:
- Woodcutter contest (from 2pm)
- Band The pop mods
- Exhibition and rating of chamois trophies at the community hall, under the Tourist Office at Chamrousse 1650
- Entertainment around the forest and the wood
- Exhibition of tractors, quads...
- Pastoral show : cattle, shepherd dog
- Crafts fair, regional products
- Chainsaw shows
- Open air bal
- Firework

This programme may be subject to change.
Free resort shuttle reinforcement from 9pm to midnight.

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⚠ Change of traffic and parking in Chamrousse 1650 - Recoin (see municipal by-law in download below - caution only in French).
Move of bus stops T87, Estibus 707 and free shuttle bus (Gondola and Duhamel stops) to "Niverolles" square.

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