The Photo Contest – Wolf Valley Forge

This day has arrived, and we’re ready to announce the WINNER of our 2025 Wolf Valley Forge Photo Contest!! First off, we want to say a huge “THANK YOU!!” to all who participated in this year’s contest! It’s so wonderful and exciting to see each of your photos, and we know they represent time, effort, thought, and adventures! We wish we had a prize for everyone, but please know that we’re so thankful for your photos!

For this contest, we choose the winner using a random name picker. We count up all of the entries based on the categories we set, and enter those into the random drawer to reveal the winner.

So without further adieu:

The Winner is —- Jenny U.

Congratulations! You are the winner of a brand-new 2025 Trail Axe!! We will be in touch with you very soon. We hope you greatly enjoy your new axe, and thank you for your fantastic photos!

Thank ya’ll again for entering! We hope you’ll enjoy these great pictures below from this year’s contest!

It looks like Jake U. is having a great season. Love that adventure photo!

Fred B. has been putting his Bush Axe to good use!

Stephen B. shared this photo of his Camp Axe!

It looks like Tim F. has had a successful hunting season thus far! Thank you for sharing your trophies.

This is a really neat photo from Sean L.! He shares: “Here is your axe at Col du Tende in France- I am on an off road tour for a week and it’s happily in my kit! Technically it’s the Fort Centrale Col du Tende…”

Eric A. shared this photo of his son’s new Trail Axe!

These are great photos from Gabe U.! It looks like you’ve had a great season so far.

We love seeing your Wolf Valley Forge axe and Lucas Forge knife collections! Thank you to Ray P. (left) and Chad J. (right) for sharing these photos.

Jenny U. shared these great photos. Congratulations on that beautiful trophy!

It looks like you’ve had a successful season, Dennis U.. We loved seeing your little axe put to work there!

Jon Norris is enjoying his Hammer Poll Axe in VA. He shared: “This photo was taken at my dock on the Coan River in Virginia. The Coan flows into the Potomac River near the confluence of the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay. And back in Aug 1812 the Bloody British sailed right up in the area of the photo and then burned down the Northumberland Co. Va. courthouse before sailing up the Washington City and setting fire to the White House.”

We loved seeing Phil G. enjoying his Bush Axe and Large Double Bit Axes!

We loved seeing Charles S’s amazing moose trophy there!

Tim F’s little axe is looking mighty fine there is beautiful Washington State.

It’s always great to hear from Mr. Kenly N. He’s has a cool looking collection, along with that Lucas Forge Nessmuk!

A Special “thank you!” to everyone who entered our 2025 Photo contest! We truly appreciate your participation! Hope you enjoy some photos below from previous years’ contests as well.

This contest was not about photography skills, but it was a random drawing for a chance to win a Wolf Valley Forge Axe! We had several categories for photos, including:

A photo of your Wolf Valley Forge axe. (1 entry)
A photo of you and your hunting trophy. (1 entry)
A photo of your Wolf Valley Forge axe with its work (examples – a tree it felled, cutting kindling, a camp setting it assisted with, etc.) (2 entries)

The fine print…1. Please only send one photo per time/setting/event. You can send multiple pictures, but they need to be from different times. 2. Please specify if you don’t want your picture posted on the Wolf Valley Forge site. We may not post every picture, but we have disclosure to, unless otherwise noted. 3. Preferably photos should be fairly recent, at least within the last couple years. 4. International entries are welcome, but shipping charges/fees will apply. Thank you! 5. Last year’s Photo Contest Winner isn’t able to win again this year, sorry! But we’d still love to see your photo adventures and share them on the website!

*Now that’s a great pile of firewood! Thank you for sharing, Mr. Rickey C.!*

*Mr. Herb V. is putting his Bush Axe to good use on a nice fire.*

*Mr. Ray P. sent in this photo of a nice black bear trophy!*

*That’s a nice pile of kindling, Mr. Tim F!*

*Another beautiful shot from Mr. Herb V.*

*Mr. John S. has put his axe to good use on Helene storm cleanup!*

Thank you for sharing your photo, Mr. Robert J.!

Mr. Kenly N. enjoyed his Nessmuk for some trimming work.

*Mr. Philip M. sent in this photo of his Kephart Hatchet and Lucas Forge Kephart knife at the Horace Kephart grave site in Bryson City, NC.*

*Mr. John C. sent in this amazing photo of his lean-to, accomplished in big part with his axe.*

*Mr. Kenly N. is putting his Chipper and Nessmuk to good use!*

These collections are looking great, from Mr. Ray P. (left) and Mr. Kenly N. (right).

*Mr. Wayne N. sharing his Kephart collection.*

*Mr. Paul B. is putting his Kephart to good use on some fatwood.*

We hope you’ll enjoy seeing a collection of photos below that were submitted by our customers, for the 2023 Wolf Valley Forge Photo Contest as well! Thank you so much to everyone who participated!