PORT ANGELES –Logging is more than a job. It’s a way of life. Just ask Gabe Rygaard, president — and TV celebrity — of Port Angeles-based Rygaard Logging. “I was driving a bulldozer by the time I was ...

On Ax Men on History, one of the featured families are the Rygaard clan. Their company is a powerhouse in the logging industry, but the loss of Gabe Rygaard right in the middle of the prime of his ...

Turns out that the Pacific Northwest doesn't have a monopoly on risky timber business. There are many ways to die on the mountain. Anybody who watched the first two seasons of History's knows that.

PORT ANGELES — Gabe Rygaard, a reality TV star and former Clallam County commissioner candidate, was killed in a 9:22 a.m. wreck involving three vehicles on U.S. Highway 101 a quarter-mile east of ...

“Ax Men” star Gabe Rygaard, 45, passed away in a three-car wreck west of Port Angeles, Wash., on September 16, Peninsula Daily News reports. Rygaard was killed at 9:22 a.m. on U.S. Highway 101 and the ...