Jun 27, 2013

We ended up leaving the house a little late, but that was okay. We went to Warwick DGC, where we played a fun round. It's a great course with a lot of challenging shots. We shot pretty well, even after it started to rain a little bit toward the end. After eating we went to Conscious Fork for lunch. I got this amazing bowl with kale, tofu, and veggies. It was absolutely wonderful. I would like to eat something like this every day. I had a tasty smoothie with it as well and a macaroon to go that was also fantastic. I want more!

Our next stop was the Campgaw/Mighty Gaw course. They changed the names so it's all Campgaw now, but the different layouts are Green, Blue, and Black. We played the long one; Black, I think. It used to be Mighty Gaw. The course is quite short on the first few holes, but it gets very soon after when you get to the uphill shots. That one uphill shot is a pain. Through the dense woods we made it to the top and around the other side.

Once playing the back area and down the fun drop shot through the thick woods, we came back up through the high grassy, annoyingly steep shots that I always consider skipping. We saw this little guy in the grass, hiding and scared when we almost tripped over her! Our final shots down the big open ski trail always seem like they will be fun. Inevitably, they are bad shots and we end up searching forever for our discs. We never learn. After collecting all of our discs from the grasses, I took Joanna home and then headed home myself.

Jun 5, 2011

We headed out to Ramapo Reservation in the morning to meet Lindsey for a hike, but when we arrived Joanna realized she didn't bring her shoes. We had to make a short trip into New York to Wal*Mart for a pair. It was the most interesting trip to one I've ever had. I can't even describe it, but there were some strange people there and long, long lines.

We came back and got started on what looked like a flat, family hike at first but quickly turned steep and fun. I suppose fun is a relative description. It was much more strenuous than I had expected.. in a good way.

We got to our first overlook quickly and stopped for a minute to check out the view and then continued on.

The trail continued up steeply and then dropped down for a long time before we leveled off again for a while. As always, the down-hiking was worse than the climb.

We crossed a nice stream with giant boulders in it so we took some time to climb some of them and hop around.

We made it to the "top," or at least the main overlook area. We took this chance to sit down and take a break, have some Clif bars and water and take pictures, of course.

In the hazy distance on the horizon we could see the Manhattan skyline. It was really awesome being able to see it from such a remote place. I wish I could have gotten better shots, but it was good enough to experience it.

The hike was down and up from there; nothing too taxing, but it wasn't over yet. We passed the "ruins" marked on the map near the lake. They were old building that just seemed to have not been cleaned up. The lake road took us back to the more populated trail and back to our parking lot.

We went to Applebee's for some much-needed food. Everything was good except the service. Lindsey headed out and Joanna and I went down the road to the Campgaw disc golf course. There were two layouts and we could play the one we hadn't played before this time.

This one was longer than the other while following the same path as the other one. Some of the holes were the same and I remember them well even though they were covered in snow last time.

When we got to the bottom this time we had to head back up to finish the course. Everything was going fine until we got to around hole 13, when they just stopped cutting the grass it seemed. It got really high and it became difficult to find our discs. I lost one and we climbed this ski lift tower to look for it with no luck.

By that point I had enough of worrying about losing discs every time I threw so we skipped to the last one, which was probably a bad idea to do but hard to pass up since it was a crazy long shot down a mountain. I shot two and found them with Joanna's help, though she lost hers. It would be a lot of fun if it weren't for the ridiculous grass.

We came back and I headed home a little later than I had expected to, but it was a really fun day nonetheless and I was worn out.

Jan 1, 2010

We decided to go for disc golf even if it was snowing today so we headed out pretty close to on time for Campgaw. It was about 45 minutes away at a ski resort. The skiing part of the mountain was pretty small from what I could see and the course played around the one hill. In the summer the course is modified to use the ski hill.

The temperature was great. It was snowy but really comfortable to play without gloves or a lot of clothing. The course was laid out nicely. The uphill shots were harder obviously because of the snow.

Clearly, the course is tightly placed but still a lot of fun. The holes didn't seem repetitive at all. They were all pretty unique and fun. The downhill hole had potential to be really good but I hit a tree or two.

Once we finished that course, we headed up to the course in Warwick, NY. This course was awesome. It had two baskets on each hole and two tees as well so you can combine to make it easier or harder. There were a lot of different types of shots on this course as well; up hills, around corners, blind shots..

It was also quite picturesque in many places. The snow looked nice and the tees were all cleared off for us as well. I think we did pretty well on this course overall.

Some of the later holes played really long but we both did awesome on hole 17, a long open hole. I got a great long putt through some trees from the field. I would definitely come back to this one.

We came home and had something to eat after not finding a Moe's that was open. We did more trip planning and watched Mythbusters for a while. The day was eventful enough, the night can be slow.