Isaiah and Jordan leave Idaho and make their way to Utah.
Saturday morning we headed out for a brand new course the city had just put in at Scera park in Orem. From what the guys on Wasatch Disc Golf Club were saying, it sounded like a fun 9 hole.
We took the boy, Jordan (Uncle J) and our buddy Chris (Csmooth) with us.
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| Nash and Uncle J |
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| Isaac putting the last hole |
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| Csmooth driving |
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| Jordan (Uncle J) driving |
Scera was a nice niner, but they hadn't put in the tee boxes yet, and sometimes you were throwing straight into a pack of kids playing in the park, which was sketchy. Isaac finished at 0, par for the course, and Isaiah shot 2 over. Isaac was happy to start the tour in the lead, especially on home soil.
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| Nash and Uncle Saiah |
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| After hitting Scera, and amuch needed nap for the boy, we went to Csmooth's house for dinner, and then Slurpees. |
MOAB
So, the most recent plan was to head down after dinner and stay the night in Green River, off the I-70. I decided though, after some research that the course at Base Camp Adventure Lodge in Moab, UT couldn't be passed up. It was on Avery Jenkins' (Pro Disc Golfer) top list of courses, gets an A+ from DiscGolfScene, and has a 4.5 rating on
DGcoursereview.com . This course had to be played, so we crammed it into the plan, drove down Saturday night, and pulled into Moab at about 11:30PM. Then we drove the 18 mile dirt/offroad trail off into the wilderness out to Base Camp...in the dark. In a Nissan Altima. It was pretty white-knuckle at times, mostly because we could barely see, and there were a few spots that I wasn't sure we were going to make it through, but we made it all the way, and were in our tent by 1:30AM, having seriously underestimted how brutal Hurrah pass would be on our mid-level rental car.
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| Pulling into Moab at 11:30PM |
As soon as we woke up, it was time to play. We roamed around a bit, met Tom, the guy who runs Base Camp, who gave us a little direction and then promptly took off across the river to get his truck and go pick up some people in town.
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| Desert tenting |
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| Yup, we took this car here. |
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| Base Camp in early morning |
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| Inside Base Camp lodge, they have fresh water, a nice bathroom and some places to hang out or have a meal out of the sun. |
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| Isaiah's customary "sign shot", we thought the Moab scenery was good enough for a sign. |
The course was awesome, and was definitely worth the drive. It plays through the red rock landscape, and uses the rock features, cliffs, canyons, ravines, and everything else to make it a hell of a challenge. It's part hiking and part Disc Golf, and some of the shots are no joke. if this is your first rodeo, you might want to play from the red tees, for beginners. We chose the more advanced blue tees, and were definitely met with every challenge the course had to throw at us, but we threw right back.
Holes 1-4 play around the lodge, but then it gets crazy. 5 shoots over a gorge, and if you throw right, goodbye disc. 6 shoots up and over the Navajo Hogans we didn't know about, but could have totally slept in, because nobody was even up there.
7 tied us up, and then Isaac throws probably the best toss of the day on hole 8. Long drive, right next to the basket, but under a ledge, and shoots and sinks the first birdie of the Isaac/Isaiah leg of the trip.
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| see that dark spot? That's the ledge. |
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| Yup. that close. right into that pocket and ready to birdie. |
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| got right in there and sunk that baby. |
So, unfortunately the rest of these pictures are hopelessly out of order. Taking pictures on multiple cameras and then copying them all to one place didn't work as well as I had hoped, and the timestamps got all messed up, so everything is out of chronological order. I'll comment along the way as I can, but you get the gist, so sit back and check out this awesome course- definitely worthy of the A+ rating.
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| Isaiah's approach onto the "Catcher's Mitt" |
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| and subsequent par shot. |
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| look who we found hanging out next to this throw! Lizards were all over this course but this one was pretty big. |
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| Awesome view from the top of the ridge, what must have been about hole 14-15ish. You can see the lodge and the river, and Dead Horse Point out in the distance. |
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| The edge Isaac is standing on goes way far down, into a valley you have to throw across, over to the other side where i'm pointing. Isaac threw across, and Isaiah's throw bounced down into the valley, but took another shot and blasted all the way across too, proving his drives can hang with his big Bro's. |
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| Between a rock and a hard place. Least it didn't fall down that hole! |
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| Hammer time |
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| Stuck in the ground like Thor's Hammer |
The course takes you up to that high ridge overlook you saw before, and then down and back over by hole 3 to finish. Coming down off the high rocky ridge it got super windy and threw one of Isaac's discs way out by the 17th basket. Some long holes on the way down and to the end, but by the time we finished, we had a really great time and got to see some beautiful terrain. Isaac wins by 1 in Moab, taking the cumulative lead up to to 3.
Then it was time to take Hurrah Pass back out, which was considerably easier by day, and didn't take nearly as long, but wasn't any easier on our rental Altima. Gave us some good views, though, and a few good bumps and scrapes too.
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| cool arch we could see from the road |
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| came down this cause we couldn't see coming down the slope, and may or may not have scraped all the way down the drop. We had gone up on that shallower left side the previous night. |
Somewhere along here Isaiah decided a better name for Hurrah Pass would have been "No thanks i'll Pass".
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| Nissan: Driven. Even to places you probably shouldn't. |
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| Because it was there. |
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| We found this cool building on the way out, not a ruin but built to look like one. |
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| Apparently someone lives here? Because the sign says private residence, no trespassing. I hope that's some kind of joke. |
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| Isaiah was pretty glad to have the rental car back on solid ground. We made it! No flat tires or falling into crevasses! |
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| We celebrated our triumphant return to Moab proper with some Eddie McStiff's Pizza, and then some Slurpees on our way back out to I-70. |
This is pretty much how most of the trip went, drinking Slurpees and rocking out in the car.
With Moab under our belts, or in my case, just between my boxers and shorts somewhere, we headed out to I-70, and made our way into Colorado, our destination for the next two days.
