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August 27th, 2026

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It's Good To Have a Hobby

News of the Weird

By News of the Weird

Published August 26, 2026

It's Good To Have a Hobby

In 2023, friends Boone Hogg and Logan Jugler found a nice stick on the side of a trail in Utah -- it had "some excellent grain on it" and a "nice grip," they said. They liked it so much, they shared a review of it with their friends, National Public Radio reports.

Two years later, Stick Nation has about 3 million Instagram followers from all over the world who post pictures and reviews of their favorite sticks.

Some are "modded," or altered by humans; others are "natty," left in their natural state.

One poster from Antarctica wondered: "There are no sticks here. ... I found an ice stick. Does this count?"

Stick Nation allowed the submission. "This is an Antarctica stick," Jugler decreed.