We got up and packed our stuff back up into the car and left Steve's place to finally head to Utah. Before we left we stopped at Big Daddy's Bagels and got some of the best food we'd had yet. I got a tuna melt on a bagel packed with veggies. It was deliciously difficult to eat.
We headed off on the highway with the amazing snow-capped Rocky Mountains in the distance. We planned to stop at a local disc golf course but realized we wouldn't have time before going to the other one where we made a reservation.
We arrived at the Ghost Town DGC after some fun back roads. Dark clouds were rolling in fast and it started raining as soon as we got our maps and got onto the first tee so we decided to wait it out in the clubhouse playing pool.
The storm passed quickly and we got onto the first hole. The gimmick at this place is all of the old junk lying around that's supposed to be from an abandoned mining town. The place actually was a mining town, but it's all staged.
There were some cool homemade baskets. I especially liked this six shooter basket. Some of them were not quite as well put together. They were made of tires and they were falling apart.
There were some good holes on the back nine. This one shoots across this gulch to the abandoned buildings, or the "ghost town." There were three of these back and forth across. It was nice to have some of these holes but a bit repetitive.
The second-to-last hole was actually a lot of fun and I almost lost a disc. We finished up and then ate some PBJ with banana at the picnic tables before getting back on the road. Not worth going out of the way for the course so I wouldn't go back.
We had to take a detour because of an accident in the tunnel on I-70 and we ended up taking Loveland Pass, where I went with Nathan a few years ago. It was much warmer this time though I was still chilly up there. It was a nice view and the sun was going down over the mountains.
After we got back on the highway we drove straight to Utah, only stopping a couple times for fuel and bathrooms. The eastern part of Utah is totally empty with no rest stops or service stations for very long stretches.
We got to the point where the gas light was on and I was driving with no gas stations anywhere on the horizon. We figured we'd just drive until the car ran out of gas and then hope to get in touch with someone, even though there was no cell service. After all our planning the car just kept going for over fifty miles after the light came on and we finally came upon a small town with a gas station. Not sure how that worked out but I'm glad it did.
After a few dead ends as far as finding a campsite we drove farther than I had wanted to and came to a nice place that was a while off the highway on a long, dark dirt road. We found a vacant site and set up quickly, ready to finally sleep.
We got up and packed our stuff back up into the car and left Steve's place to finally head to Utah. Before we left we stopped at Big Daddy's Bagels and got some of the best food we'd had yet. I got a tuna melt on a bagel packed with veggies. It was deliciously difficult to eat.
We headed off on the highway with the amazing snow-capped Rocky Mountains in the distance. We planned to stop at a local disc golf course but realized we wouldn't have time before going to the other one where we made a reservation.
We arrived at the Ghost Town DGC after some fun back roads. Dark clouds were rolling in fast and it started raining as soon as we got our maps and got onto the first tee so we decided to wait it out in the clubhouse playing pool.
The storm passed quickly and we got onto the first hole. The gimmick at this place is all of the old junk lying around that's supposed to be from an abandoned mining town. The place actually was a mining town, but it's all staged.
There were some cool homemade baskets. I especially liked this six shooter basket. Some of them were not quite as well put together. They were made of tires and they were falling apart.
There were some good holes on the back nine. This one shoots across this gulch to the abandoned buildings, or the "ghost town." There were three of these back and forth across. It was nice to have some of these holes but a bit repetitive.
The second-to-last hole was actually a lot of fun and I almost lost a disc. We finished up and then ate some PBJ with banana at the picnic tables before getting back on the road. Not worth going out of the way for the course so I wouldn't go back.
We had to take a detour because of an accident in the tunnel on I-70 and we ended up taking Loveland Pass, where I went with Nathan a few years ago. It was much warmer this time though I was still chilly up there. It was a nice view and the sun was going down over the mountains.
After we got back on the highway we drove straight to Utah, only stopping a couple times for fuel and bathrooms. The eastern part of Utah is totally empty with no rest stops or service stations for very long stretches.
We got to the point where the gas light was on and I was driving with no gas stations anywhere on the horizon. We figured we'd just drive until the car ran out of gas and then hope to get in touch with someone, even though there was no cell service. After all our planning the car just kept going for over fifty miles after the light came on and we finally came upon a small town with a gas station. Not sure how that worked out but I'm glad it did.
After a few dead ends as far as finding a campsite we drove farther than I had wanted to and came to a nice place that was a while off the highway on a long, dark dirt road. We found a vacant site and set up quickly, ready to finally sleep.
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