summer travelling discgolf photos

been all kindza places this past month. haven't had a weekend home in a long time, and probably won't for a while yet. here we go:

stoughton's a great little 9er southeast of madison. this hole in particular pretty much forces you to go through this tiny gap during the high-speed turn of the flight...



...so it can coast gently around the corner to the hole.



a tough flick down a long perilous hallway and through no easy hole to a hard right



this one's neat--the branch totally makes the hole. midrange length around and pretty hard left after the tree.



my buddy peck has been setting up a private course on a nature center that brings poor kids from the city out to have some nature experiences. he's clearing out tons of invasive species, and has yet to mow fairways. we took some photos on a test-run of some of the holes with a lightweight tempbasket.



this was a TOUGH pro tee demanding an impossible immediate right turn and long glide downhill.



down the alley (unlikely) and through some guard trees to the edge of the creek



putting back from the edge



this hole was awesome. i liked it, but wondered if it was too hard until both of us had killer deuces on it. 4/5ths of the hole is uphill over a tree filled slant starting over the gorge, then it slants down left towards the hole where the gorge tightens back in. there'll probably be an anhyzer route down to the fallen tree at left opened up someday.



looking up at the hole from the fallen tree



peck does the monster-mash winding up for the throw



and i do the twist



i thought it was kinda interesting that he moved the camera such that everything but the moving disc was blurred...



more teenager-engineering in the woods, this one hidden at lime kiln. used to be more hooked up; their shade'd been busted up a bit.



a pretty hole at telulah; easy if you can throw a flick. there's a shallow gorge running from the path along and up the left side of the hole.



puts one right up there



telulah's yet another appleton-area course that trains frequently go right by holes.



made this awesome putt facing away and reaching out to the left, had to coast it pretty hard with the trees in my face... after shooting crappy all day in the tourney there of course.



the famous elver 18 pro tee in madison



standing rocks, site of wisconsin's toughest annual tournament. i think this is 16. they just switched to being a pay course; i paid my 20$ season pass, so get that second course put in already! ^_-



at the bottom of hole 1 after coming down a huge hill at left and behind



with the placement of some of the trees on this one, it can look just as long as this wider-angle shot makes it look. a long hole through meager but strategic trouble, down after halfway and back up again pretty steeply at the end. everything along the edges is usually deep leaves, and there's especially unfriendly landing far up at right.



peck ran his first tournament for his disc golf group, indigo, west of stevens' point at north park of wood county. less stringent than pdga, we camped, there were kegs of beer and tons of hot food.



brad stemper drives in-between mark andrew's wisecracks



the big man proves it's not just muscle



dusty hanneman takes a practice throw at his own basket, which he had a running contest for someone to win. i hole-in-one'd it, which i guess i can count as my 5th ace. flubbed the next shot in the finals tho.



the prizes and the food



this guy threw lights-out all day to win the tourney






all cleaned up and ready to go

scans to come

finally scanned in a crapton of photos scanned in. still got more to do before posting. might go out to mn to disc golf this weekend.

stoughton



baraboo

vegeta-sama finally comes to rest

today i finally put my "new" (as of last summer) computer, dubbed 'Susano', into the shop to have the noisy fan in the power supply replaced with a quieter one. I'd already replaced the easier fans, but homey don't fark with power supplies. that was the last thing keeping me from having my new computer on all the time--that fan's whine was just too much, even with the others replaced.

so my old computer, 'vegeta-sama', is finally going to turn off. it had been quietly serving up my domain and website and rarely ever logged into for these last few years of its' life. but it was born summer after freshman year in college, 98, HEAVILY appreciated as a reprieve from the windowless latenight cs-lab (with blissfully unpoliced computers, even for those times) that had the fattest, stinkiest hindus you've ever met. most hindus i've met are pretty clean. not these guys. and hindi, forgive me, has got to be one of the least beautiful languages to listen to shouted all the time. i built it myself from peices chosen at a local shop, budgeting what upgrades i could, and he was a celeron 300 w/ 500meg ram, a 30gb drive, and tnt1 vidcard. a fine machine to play what still is my favorite pc game of all time, quake1 creeper runes CTF (which was like a combination of a FPSshooter, capture the flag, and chess). along the way, he swapped out the celeron300 for a free p2-400, which was just about as high as the mb would go. upped to a gig of ram, added a 70gb drive, a fast cd burner for the time that is possibly one of the LOUDEST ever made when it's reading--sounds like a damn jet taking off. the 70gb drive required a ide extention card, and ever since it and the drive were installed, the power supply hasn't been able to handle the initial boot needs. don't ask me how i figured this out, but to start vegeta-sama from off, you have to flick the voltage switch up on the power supply, turn it on, wait about 3 seconds for the right kinda hum, and flick it back down to normal so it can boot. oh, and that last harddrive has been held in by duct tape for the last 5 years. and there've been magnets all over the outside of the case for about that long too. and no virus/firewall software, at least on the install that's lasted these last 3-4years. (all these are huge no-nos i've been pleased to flaunt and be trouble-free) trucked on faithfully ever since i stopped screwing with it ^_^ it lasted me through college and beyond.. there was a time it succeeded the television as the primary entertainment screen late in college, finally in an apartment with buddies.. got and watched entire seasons of subbed japanese shows, esp dbz and inu yasha. aquateen'd just come out, all kindza good stuff. and it was used with a wireless keyboard and mouse--i'd hotkey the magnifier (in start-accessories-accessibility) so i read the screen from accross the room and start the right file. there were a few summers it sat on the third floor of an airconditionless eastside milwaukee house.. it was HOT and HUMID up there, and that's coming from someone who had just left florida. the rest of the house could be ok, but i had to use a lotta fans just for my comfort, lord help the computer. it has probably been near-perpetually on for the last 6 years.

so good job old man, you've been through a lot; with this blogpost, i thee retire. you get to rest in the garage, ready to return if needed.

two telemarks

looking through my http referrals on my discgolf page i saw one person visited searching about the telemark resort disc golf tourney, and another person visiting my disc golf map page from the REAL telemark region, in Skien Norway.

heh ^_^

i'm behind on some updates... busybusy