phoenix AZ area disc golf courses
I tore through all the phoenix area courses on vacation. i messed up getting all the photos i wanted, but i still have enough to show the gist of each of the courses there. here's a link to the pix
Fountain Hills is pro-difficulty and very easy to lose discs on.
Buffalo Ridge is more what i expected, rocky dry terrain and thorny bush. played on a big hillside.
Thunderbird-Paseo is a nice course in a big drainage canal, fun for longer arms.
Mesquite Grove, while far south and supposedly to be pulled, is a really fun use of a bunch of tall thorny bushes. holes play backwards from alt tees for 18.
one of the dudes i played with got his second hole-in-one here on a hammer toss, the very last hole i played this vacation
Vista Del Camino is another championship course with multiple pins on just about every hole. fairly flat and grassy with a river in the middle. A good disc golf store is in a shopping center nearby.
Moeur is a great 9er near ASU, rocky and thorny terrain in a small area with decent elevation change make for some very tech holes.
Emerald is a decent beginner's course with good holes playing around a lake non-threateningly.
Conocido is a fairly open and nearly flat neighborhood course with multiple tees to make 18 on 9 baskets.
I also had fun doing family stuff
an HDR pic of the superstition mountains (made by combining several exposures)
and lastly, a video of a couple angles of the new two finger distance flick i'm trying to tame. unlike most flickers, i don't make any effort to keep my arm low or elbow in; i chuck it like a sidearm pitch
then the flight back sucked ASS. first northwest airlines cancels my flight from AZ to MN is canceled and i get rescheduled separate from my 8yearold niece. deal with that with a ticket agent that can't do a single thing without having to grab the lady next to for an explanation of how to do the job. i later learn NWA doesn't have employees there or something and someone else takes care of it. i also later learn she only checks my bags as far as MN and not all the way to WI. once in MN it's a blizzard and again, flight canceled, rescheduled overnight for 7am sun. i asked people about my bags, and without looking at my claim, they told me they'd be held and probably get to WI ahead of me. i had a place to stay, but when i wake at 5 to call and affirm my suspicions the 7am was canceled (it was), i spent an hour and a half waiting on hold to try to reschedule before giving up and going to the airport. (i HOPE airlines have the foresight to call in more operators in such scenarios..) thankfully there was a line at the airport just for cancellations, and i got to talk fairly fast. after learning i was rebooked for yet another overnight NEXT 7am, i was able to get onto a 3pm flight without having to do standby. after wasting all day on that, i learn my bags never left MN. the lady at the WI bag-check was the only one all day who obviously knew her stuff. i'm told i'll get it in a day, but it takes until wednesday for me to get it; not even getting a call about it until tue. thpppt. 2nd worst flight experience after sleeping on an airport floor on xmas eve.
Fountain Hills is pro-difficulty and very easy to lose discs on.
Buffalo Ridge is more what i expected, rocky dry terrain and thorny bush. played on a big hillside.
Thunderbird-Paseo is a nice course in a big drainage canal, fun for longer arms.
Mesquite Grove, while far south and supposedly to be pulled, is a really fun use of a bunch of tall thorny bushes. holes play backwards from alt tees for 18.
one of the dudes i played with got his second hole-in-one here on a hammer toss, the very last hole i played this vacation
Vista Del Camino is another championship course with multiple pins on just about every hole. fairly flat and grassy with a river in the middle. A good disc golf store is in a shopping center nearby.
Moeur is a great 9er near ASU, rocky and thorny terrain in a small area with decent elevation change make for some very tech holes.
Emerald is a decent beginner's course with good holes playing around a lake non-threateningly.
Conocido is a fairly open and nearly flat neighborhood course with multiple tees to make 18 on 9 baskets.
I also had fun doing family stuff
an HDR pic of the superstition mountains (made by combining several exposures)
and lastly, a video of a couple angles of the new two finger distance flick i'm trying to tame. unlike most flickers, i don't make any effort to keep my arm low or elbow in; i chuck it like a sidearm pitch
then the flight back sucked ASS. first northwest airlines cancels my flight from AZ to MN is canceled and i get rescheduled separate from my 8yearold niece. deal with that with a ticket agent that can't do a single thing without having to grab the lady next to for an explanation of how to do the job. i later learn NWA doesn't have employees there or something and someone else takes care of it. i also later learn she only checks my bags as far as MN and not all the way to WI. once in MN it's a blizzard and again, flight canceled, rescheduled overnight for 7am sun. i asked people about my bags, and without looking at my claim, they told me they'd be held and probably get to WI ahead of me. i had a place to stay, but when i wake at 5 to call and affirm my suspicions the 7am was canceled (it was), i spent an hour and a half waiting on hold to try to reschedule before giving up and going to the airport. (i HOPE airlines have the foresight to call in more operators in such scenarios..) thankfully there was a line at the airport just for cancellations, and i got to talk fairly fast. after learning i was rebooked for yet another overnight NEXT 7am, i was able to get onto a 3pm flight without having to do standby. after wasting all day on that, i learn my bags never left MN. the lady at the WI bag-check was the only one all day who obviously knew her stuff. i'm told i'll get it in a day, but it takes until wednesday for me to get it; not even getting a call about it until tue. thpppt. 2nd worst flight experience after sleeping on an airport floor on xmas eve.
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