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July 5, 2008

PUNCHING THE DONKEY

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For those who asked on the Harlequin site about the Donkey Puncher trail sign (my blog is posted there as well as on Facebook, and less-frequently on MySpace), nope, it has nothing to do with punching poor donkeys  …. This area of Whistler where I run (Lost Lake) used to be an old logging cutblock back in the day, and apparently Donkey Puncher is an old logging term.

When logging was first mechanized, a small steam boiler - called a ’steam donkey’ — was introduced to power the winching-up of heavy logs mounted on a ‘donkey sled’. The operator of the steam donkey was called the donkey puncher … and that’s one donkey puncher pictured above, with his steam boiler.

Posted by Loreth @ 3:18 pm | THE WHISTLER LIFE, THE WRITING LIFE  

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