Sunday, June 26, 2016

Canadian Axe-Throwing Bar Proves Big Hit

Just to show how tough we roll up here in the tundra, we have a bar where we drink and toss axes like they are darts. What can go wrong with that?

 
Combining razor-sharp axes and alcohol sounds like a very bad idea, but it seems to be working for the Timber Lounge, a popular axe-throwing bar in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The Timber Lounge offers patrons sick of urban sports like bowling, darts or pool a new way to unwind. Axe-throwing has long been a popular pastime among lumberjacks in Nova Scotia, and Darren Hudson, a fifth-generation sawmill operator from Shelburne County, decided to bring it to the masses. He partnered with fellow axe-throwing enthusiast Marc Chisholm and together they founded the city’s first axe-throwing lounge. Adrenalin junkies can get their fix by balancing sharp hatchets and double-edged axes over their heads before hurling them at painted wooden bullseyes. Between sessions, they can step into the lounge area to enjoy Nova Scotia food and craft beers.


 


3 comments:

JDsivraj said...

Competed at axe throwing as a kid 4 decades ago in the wimpy liberal state of massachusetts. It's fun stuff.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

There's an axe-throwing place here in Edmonton somewhere but I'm pretty sure there's no bar attached.

DrGoat said...

Gives me an idea. Maybe they can open up a tomahawk throwing
lounge here in Tucson.