CO Vacation, 9/12-18/2010

[Schoen-hopper]

Dragging wife & dad along for another adventure in Colorado.

http://www.pdga.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=34474
http://forum.mhdgc.org/viewtopic.php?f= ... 287#p28287

Was looking for feedback on courses & other recommendations. Didn't get much response, but at this point, this looks to be our itenerary. Going to be a fun week!

9/12/10
* City Park, Pueblo
* DGC, Poncha Springs
Staying in Leadville.

9/13/10
* CMC, Leadville
Hiking around Aspen
- GOLF: Lakota Canyon Ranch, New Castle
Staying in Glenwood Springs.

9/14/10
* CMC, Glenwood Springs
* Peninsula, Frisco (if there is time)
- GOLF: GC, Breckenridge
Staying in Grand Lake

9/15/10
* YMCA, Estes Park
Hiking around Estes Park
- GOLF: GC, Estes Park
Staying in Estes Park

9/16/10
* Edora Park, Ft. Collins
* Sundance Trail, Red Feather Lakes
* Beaver Meadows, Red Feather Lakes
Staying in Ft. Collins

9/17/10
- GOLF: Fossil Trace, Golden
Winery at Evergreen
* Beaver Ranch, Conifer
Staying in Denver

9/18/10
* Frontier Park, Hays KS (maybe)
* Thomas Park, Salina KS (less likely)
Back in Wichita

If you want to throw a round, call me at 316-209-3225.
Mike Schoenhofer

[Zach Y]

Looks like a blast. I hope to make it out and play a bunch of courses around Longmont and Denver now that my sister lives out there.

[mikey]

I have not had a chance to play either of them, but there is a course in Fraser/winter park that is pretty new. It right on hwy 40. Looks very open. Then they say the course at the ymca of the rockies is a nice and tight one. This is coming for people i work with. I have not seen the YMCA course. On a side note Grand Lake has a good brewery and so does estes park.

[Schoen-hopper]

Thanks. They are actually having a tournament at those two courses near Winter Park next weekend.

[ditziwt]

I played leadville a couple of times this summer and really enjoyed it.
The locals recommended it over everything else in the immediate area (aspen/snowmass, poncha springs)
they also said pueblo is the best course in the state, but we didnt get to stop to see if they were right.

i found out that buena vista is suppose to be installing a course within the next year.
check out the brewery in BV as well. it is in the new downtown area by the river.

[_dm4]

Some former students of mine from Norton played some courses in Colorado this summer (they also played some KDGA tourneys, Ransom/Ellis and Norton and I think are going to play Hays, Tom and Joe). The one they liked the best was called Phantom Falls in Pine Colorado. You can check it out on this discgolfcoursereview.com;

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=3129

It looks like a lot of fun! I think it's private and you have to contact them before you go, appointment only.

[Schoen-hopper]

I played Phantom Falls on the last trip. Josh Hull beat the guide. That was a crazy course. Not a flat spot on it. No grass, so the rocky greens played super fast. Awesome course to work on your short game and throwing extreme uphill & downhill shots. Cool thing was the CTP rocks. If you got one, you could move the rocks. Plamen got to move one. About 6 of them were in the basket.

[2]

I played Widefield this summer mIke, runs along a creek.. Kinda goes up one side of the creek and then back on the other side... It was pretty good, I happened to run into a local and he was glad to show me the course route.... Its in Colorado Springs

[_dm4]

I played Phantom Falls on the last trip. Josh Hull beat the guide. That was a crazy course. Not a flat spot on it. No grass, so the rocky greens played super fast. Awesome course to work on your short game and throwing extreme uphill & downhill shots. Cool thing was the CTP rocks. If you got one, you could move the rocks. Plamen got to move one. About 6 of them were in the basket.

Glad you got to play it. That is a cool idea about the CTP rocks! I wonder if those are reset each year? I would like to play some CO courses, but I think those days might be over. "The Rock" is tough enough!