Cache Valley Disc Drivers

We will be starting a league at Von Baer park on Wednsday May 16th at 6:30pm. It will run on Wednesdays through September! Check out all the info at https://www.discgolfscene.com/leagues/Blind_Gully_Disc_Golf_League_2012

Thanks To Mook, Laura, Caleb, Nate, and Ted for helping out with the Von Baer Work Day. We were able to get all 18 tee signs cut and cemented in. We will have signs on them this week. We also dug out new tee pads for holes 4a, 6a, 6b, and 7a. The course has a new look and this may be bad news for some but it is definately more challenging. We will have another work day soon. We will post it here when we know for sure when it will be.

We have 4 Eagle Projects at Von Baer. I didn't realize March 31st was LDS conference so we can't have LDS boy scouts out there that day. We have moved the date to April 14th. We will be installing tee signs and improving tee pads. We need all the help we can get! Other projects submitted were to improve the bridge at hole 6, install benches, and flatten out trails on the steep slopes of holes 6, 7, and 9.

We are going to have a work day at Von Baer on April 14th from 9:00am on. The main goal of the project will be to install tee signs. Randy at Providence is very pleased with the success of the course and says there have been players out there almost everyday even throughout the winter. So, plan on bringing shovel and post hole diggers. It will be alot like basket install day where we need to dig narrow holes and fill them with cement. Hopefully, I can arrange some scout groups to help out. If theres time and enough man power, we want to widen the teepads. Sometime this year we hope to get rubber pads for the tees. In addition, holes 7B and 8A will be moving. One of the biggest complaints the city gets is discs over the road so both those teepads will be moved down the hill.

Along those lines, other complaints that have been received about course is loud swearing and trash. There is a garbage at the trailhead by the parking lot. If you pack it in, please pack it out! I promise its a much easier decision to take a course out than put one in. If you are up by holes 7, 8, and 9 and you have a bad shot, don't punish the neighbors for your mistake by cursing out loud. Lets show the community that the Cache Valley disc golfers are not a bunch of degenerates!

In April, we are also planning another work day to help an Eagle Scout Project build a bridge from hole 6 to 7. It will be constructed with two power poles spanning 60 feet held together with pressure treated 2 x 6's. It will eliminate the need for stairs up the steep hill on the other side of the creek.

I am currently in negotiations with Nibley City about installing a course at a new park they are putting in on 1200W. It will be another 9 holes, but will provide some holes that you don't get to see at Von Baer such as more open holes you can practice long open drives on. There is a walkway and a playground around the park as well so its a little more family and beginner friendly. The park isnt in yet which means that they are allowing me freedom to put trees where I want. I don't want to count my chickens before the hatch but it looks really promising we will have a 2nd course in the valley this year.

I talked with Kevin Kobe up at USU about the baskets up there. The trailer park accross from the old course is being taken out supposedly for a recreation park. The students voted on the recreation park last week so our fate is up to them. Kevin said if the park is approved, the baskets at USU will be going in at that new park just north of the Student Living Center.

I promise this is my last thing. We are holding a tournament at Sherwood Hills Resort up in sardine canyon on July 14th. It is not a PDGA sanctioned event. We will also be doing Huktoberfest on October 12, 13 and 14. It will be a night tournament on October 12 and a two day PDGA event on the 13th and 14th. Brigham City League will be on Wednesdays at 6:30 starting on May 2nd and running through August 29th.

Thanks guys!

Just a heads up, there is a winter tournament at Lava Hot Springs on February 4th. Its sponsored by the Hot Springs and the Lava Hot Springs Inn. In your player's pack you get a hot pools pass among other stuff. There will be overnight stays and ski passes and such in the prize pile. Find more info at http://pvdgc.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1079

If you don't get the paper, you might have missed this...

http://news.hjnews.com/cache_magazine/article_d6b74e1a-e07d-11e0-a046-001cc4c03286.html#user-comment-area

They did a good job reporting. There are some mess ups, like when they said I am a USU grad or that Caleb can throw 500ft (as if!).

Pre-registration is up for Huktoberfest! Its on altitude disc golf's website at http://www.altitudediscgolf.com/servlet/the-Altitude-Sponsored-Events-cln-Upcoming/Categories. The fee is only 3% to pre-register. Thats only $.90 on a $30 order. The night event is seperate from the Saturday PDGA event so that you can come to either or both if you want. For those who come to the night event, you will recieve a light pod and a Huktoberfest mini with your entry. There will be more there to buy. If you come on Saturday, you will get a Huktoberfest disc, a Huktoberfest towel, a Huktoberfest T-shirt, and a Huktoberfest bag tag. It should be a great event. You can get to it from the PDGA website.

Again, I need help on Friday before the night event to set up and Saturday after the event to take down. I need help on Saturday to run alternate events. I need 20 baskets. I have only 4 confirmed so far. Please let me know if you have a basket I can borrow by e-mailing me at [email disguise].

If you have any questions about the event, you can post it here or call me or e-mail me. Thanks!

Pre-registration is up for Huktoberfest! Its on altitude disc golf's website at http://www.altitudediscgolf.com/servlet/the-Altitude-Sponsored-Events-cln-Upcoming/Categories. The fee is only 3% to pre-register. Thats only $.90 on a $30 order. The night event is seperate from the Saturday PDGA event so that you can come to either or both if you want. For those who come to the night event, you will recieve a light pod and a Huktoberfest mini with your entry. There will be more there to buy. If you come on Saturday, you will get a Huktoberfest disc, a Huktoberfest towel, a Huktoberfest T-shirt, and a Huktoberfest bag tag. It should be a great event. You can get to it from the PDGA website.

Again, I need help on Friday before the night event to set up and Saturday after the event to take down. I need help on Saturday to run alternate events. I need 20 baskets. I have only 4 confirmed so far. Please let me know if you have a basket I can borrow by e-mailing me at [email disguise].

If you have any questions about the event, you can post it here or call me or e-mail me. Thanks!

Blind Gully Disc Golf Course at Von Baer Park in Providence is officially open! The course is very primitive right now. The best thing you can do if you play the course is to walk the same routes as much as possible so that trails are developed and throw dead branches off the beaten path. Please be courteous and do not throw on holes next to the road when there are cars present. I will get course maps up ASAP. The tees are dirt. Cement or Fly Pads will not be installed until the spring. We are planning on having a course cleanup day on September 17th and a course Grand Opening tournament on September 24th.
Thanks to everyone who came out and helped this week. I hope you love your new course!

We had about 30 people show up to install the Providence course. Thanks to all who showed up! It was a huge success! The sleeves are in. The teepads are leveled. We are waiting for master locks to come in before we can actually get the baskets in. Randy at Providence said he is hurrying to get this done. As soon as I get word from him. I will let you know and we will be playing. Thanks!

The city doesn't have an auger for us to use so we are going to be digging holes on our own. I will be there from 2:00pm on. If you are feeling extra helpful, you can come out anytime.

We are installing the Providence Course at Von's Park on Tuesday, August 16th, at 6:00pm. We need all the help we can get! Please come and plan on doing some manual labor and getting this course in playing shape. We are planning on installing the pins on Tuesday, leveling out tee pads, and clearing brush.

If you have these items, please bring

Shovel
Pick
Post Hole Digger
Buckets
Wheelbarrow
Rake
Level
Gloves

I will be meeting with Providence on Monday. I thought they mentioned that they would have an auger to drill the holes, but I am not sure.

The plan is to finish the initial stage this week to get the course playable. In September, we will have another work day and post permanent tee signs and clean up the course again. We will do so again in October and November and have it up to snuff before the winter comes. If you have any comments or questions you can shoot me an e-mail or call at four three five seven six zero four two two four. Thanks!

We are planning on having a permanent design laid out by this Saturday morning. I will be there from 8:00am til its done and then Providence City needs to approve the design on Monday. Anyone is welcome to come out on Saturday if they want to help or see a rough draft. We are planning an installation on Tuesday the 16th or Wednesday the 18th. Keep in mind that the baskets will be in wet cement and won't be able to play until the day after the installation. The baskets must be leveled out and anyone playing the course before its ready will mess up the targets. We are looking for help with foilage cleanup. Also, we need to level out tee pad areas. Shovels, picks, rakes, wheelbarrows, levels, crescent wrenches, post hole diggers, are all needed. We are trying to get scout groups to come help and as soon as I know which day they are coming, I will let you know and we can have a course back in Logan.

USU course update. Apparently, USU is keeping the baskets that they originally had so that they can re-install the course in the mobile home park that was just accross the street from the old course. They are taking out the trailer park and installing grass and planting the course there. I don't know what the time frame is for this.

Thanks!

I met with Providence today about our course at Von Baer Park and it has passed funding, the park lines have been defined for us and the City Council has offiically approved the course. We will be ordering new baskets and should have the design set and have baskets in hand within a couple of weeks. I will keep you informed because we will need some able bodies for the install. Thanks for your patience in all this.

So, once the course is in we will probably be holding a grand opening tournament and invite the city out to learn disc golf and play.

Also, we have the Cache County Fairground reserved for October 14th and 15th for the Huktoberfest. Friday night will be a 27 hole haunted night round and Saturday will be a 36 hole PDGA Sanctioned tournament. You can play either Friday or Saturday or both.

There were about 6 of us who met with Randy Eck this morning. The meeting went well. We still need to get approval from the city council and verify park boundaries on two holes. I will get with Randy by Tuesday about those items and will work on the layout. The layout is turning out to be alot more promising than I originally thought. I will be a way fun course with hugh elevation changes and water hazards. I still think it will only suit 9 holes. I will get you more info next week on it and go from there. Thanks guys!

Huge interest in Providence. I am meeting with Randy from the city at Von Baer park tomorrow (6/16) at 9:00am to view the areas we can use. You are welcome to join me and offer your support! Thanks!

Don't miss it. 6:00.

Brigham City League is starting on April 7th and will run on Thursday through September. We will try to get more cash into the prize pile and make it alot more funner this year. We are gonna switch up some of the alternates too.

Also, we have established the grounds that we can use for the Von's Park Disc Golf Course. I will be putting together a rough draft design to submit to the city council by the end of March. Things are moving along very nicely! I will keep you updated!

I would like to start up Brigham City League in April and have it go through September. It will start at 6:00pm until May, then it will start at 6:30 until September, then it will go back to 6:00. I have some great sponsorship in the works that hopefully will come through. Church groups come through on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so I would like to run the league on Thursday nights. The only problem with this is that is when NUDGA runs doubles at Riverside. If they are still running doubles on Thursday nights, then we will fight the crowd and continue on Wednesdays. As soon as I know, you will know.

I met with Park's and Recreation at Providence City this morning. They took great interest in disc golf. They said that purchasing new baskets would not be a problem at all. They are not exactly sure where the boundaries of the park end.
When the snow clears more, I will go out with them and look at the parameters of the park and make certain that we can design a viable 9 hole course. All in all, it was a great meeting and as long as the space is there, they are initially on board.

I have a meeting with Providence City this Friday on a proposed course at Von's Park. We will discuss funds needed and areas that we can use for the course. If you are interested in more details, shoot me a message. Otherwise, I will get more information out as I get it. We are proposing Providence to purchase new baskets from Innova or DGA.

I would like to run an Ice Bowl in Cache Valley at the proposed course at Von's Park in Providence with temporary baskets in February. Is there any interest for this? Pleae let me know ASAP so we can get the word out!

Still want a disc golf course in Cache Valley? We are still working on it...without USU's help. The main area's of interest for disc golf are Von's Park in Providence, King Park in North Logan (Green Canyon), and the new park at 600 South. The area with the most activity is Von's Park. I am meeting with Providence City this month to discuss a deal to buy new baskets for this park. It play against the gully walls of Providence Canyon after it exits the mountains. There is space for a great 9 holes course. I will update you as I get more info and ask for help as we progress.

Just like that we went from almost installing to starting all over. Kevin Kobe, USU Campus Rec Direction has put the cabosh on our course at Lundstrom stating that the course is "a hinder to other park users". This comes after he specifically asked me to "pursue Lundstrom with the City ASAP" when the Student Living Center was removed. Never did he voice his concern during the hours upon hours during the summer we were meeting with the city, USU, designing, and redesigning the course.

What do we do from here? Well, we push on without USU. We still have baskets from Skyview they are willing to let us use. I believe they have at least 5. We could try to get those in at Lundstrom, or pursue King Park at Green Canyon. Also, we are going to propose 9 holes at Von's Park in Providence and the Nature Park in Nibley City's master plan. Keep your heads up. I am sorry that it went down this way.

You have my blessing to tell Kevin how you feel.

I have not been able to get ahold of the baskets yet. We are going to postpone installation until next week. I will keep you posted as new arrives.

Mike, Nate, and I met with Logan Parks director Russ Akina an hour ago and he asked us to find a date we can install the course within the next week or two!!! So, absolutely everything is ready to go on the city's side. The only thing stopping us is getting USU to release the baskets. Logan will not sign a document taking any kind of responsibility for the basket but it seems that USU won't release them to us without a signed document. I will be working on this tomorrow and hopefully have info for you by then. When we get the baskets, there might be some cement needed to be broken and cleaned off of the sleeves. Hopefully we can do that this weekend, I might call for your help with that on Saturday. Then, we are looking at Tuesday the 28th for installation. If you would like to help, you can call, visit, or e-mail Kevin Kobe of USU Campus Recreation to voice your support for releasing the baskets to us ASAP! Please be courteous.

We will be installing 9 holes at Lundstrom Park this Monday, August 16th, at 6:00pm. If you have the time, please come and help!

Here is what we need.

Post Hole diggers
Shovels
Levels
5 Gallon Buckets

Nate, if you cannot make it or need help with the cement, please let me know (call me)
Kurt, I will get you the hole and course maps by Thursday the 19th for print and laminating.

The Cache Valley League will start next Thursday at 6:00pm. It will be $5 to play plus $1 for the ace pot (optional). There will be four divisions (Pro, Advanced, Intermediate, Beginner). Payout will be similiar to Brigham City's league except you will get to pick your own division. 18 Holes.

I will be out of internet range for the weekend so if you need to get ahold of me, you can call me at 435-760-4224. Mind you I will be at a 2 day tournament so most of the time I won't be able to answer. Leave a message and I will get back to you soon as I can.

Thanks to Nate and Colby for coming to the meeting. I felt it was a good step forward. Russ indicated that the 600 South Park is going to be constructed sooner than later. That is the ultimate place he would like to see the course go permanently. I agreed. As far as Lundstrom is concerned, it looks like we need to clear some concerns about turf wear and tear and basket foundations with the maintenance crew before we can install the course there. We will meet with them next week to clear their concerns. I know we have gone the whole summer without disc golf, but feel that will end very soon. I will keep you posted next week.

The city is still dealing with some concerns about disc golf at Lundstrom Park. I am just about done dancing around with them. Last I talked to them, it was approved and we were just waiting for some crew work at the park to get done. Now, they have more concerns. I am meeting with Parks and Rec Director Russ Akina on Wednesday, August 4th, at 3:00pm at the Recreation Center. I could really use your support as I give him an ultumatum. I don't want them to think they can push us off til the summer is over and think that we are going away.

The final design for Lundstrom Park was submitted on June 29th. The city accepted the plans and are awaiting some irrigation lines to be moved before we can install the course. Everything is complete on our end. I am anxiously awaiting word from the city for the go ahead on installation. I was expecting it to be by today, but since I have not received word yet, I don't expect to hear anything until next week. I will keep you posted. Be ready with your post hole diggers and shovels cause as soon as I get the OK to install, we are there putting up 9 holes!

I met with the city on Wednesday. Lundstrom is looking to be installed the week after Independence Day. I need help! First, thanks to Nate for donating 18 bags of cement. We still need tee posts and signs. I need donations, even if its $5. I can't do it all myself. I will be out Friday the 25th from 10am -12pm working on design. You are welcome to join or come see the layout. Let me know what you think. I will keep you posted as soon as more info comes in.

I am meeting (hopefully a final time) with Russ at Logan Parks and Rec on Wednesday the 23rd. The city has decided to allow use of Lundstrom Park as the new disc golf course park!! We will discuss installation and terms of use. This is a good thing. This is what we originally wanted. Alot closer to town and to the university. This course will be challenging and alot of fun with water hazards and elevation changes. Some short ace runs and a couple where you can just let it fly. We may have the course installed as soon as June 30th!! I will keep you posted after I meet with them again.

I have received word from Russ at Logan Parks that he would like to meet with me on Wednesday at 3:00pm to discuss a course at 600 SOUTH PARK! This is our shot to get a quality course in NOW! I NEED YOUR HELP! I am going out again to survey the land on Tuesday evening, somewhere between 4 - 6. Please come and look at the land with me. Let me know what time works for you!

I am going to shout this out. I NEED ANYONE AND EVERYONE THERE AT THE MEETING ON WEDNESDAY AT 4:00PM AT RUSS AKINA'S OFFICE AT THE RECREATION CENTER ADJACENT TO LOGAN HIGH SCHOOL. Its alot easier for him to say no to me, but much more difficult if I have all of you to back me up. Please come. Even if you don't want to say anything, your presence alone will go a long way!

LET'S GET THIS DONE AND GET DISC GOLF BACK IN THE VALLEY!

Russ Akina, Logan Parks and Recreation Director, offered 600 south park which is a future park to disc golf a couple weeks ago. He didn't want to install it until the course was under construction in a year or so. I surveyed the land and found it to be very promising for disc golf. I sent a message to him earlier this week asking for permission to use the park even before it is constructed. Keep your fingers crossed!

I met with Smithfield Rec Director Brett Daniels yesterday. He was interested in putting the course up at Central Park in Smithfield. WAY TOO SMALL! He has no other ideas. I met with Chris Brothersen of the USU ORC today. He has extensive experience in dealing with the Forest Service. He gave me some helpful ideas of how to pitch Green Canyon to the new Special Permits person. We will put in a proposal next week and see if we get laughed at again or not.

Other projects, we are still trying to meet with Providence about Von's Park, North Logan about King's Park, and am not giving up on Mt. Logan, Lundstrom, 600 south park, and another area in Logan.

I still need other ideas if you have them for a course. It doesn't have to be on grass!

The USU course has been removed. The baskets have been donated to the Cache Valley Disc Drivers and we are currently meeting with North Logan and Providence city officials as well as the Forest Service to propose and hopefully approve two new courses. One at Von's Park in Providence and the other in the day use area of Green Canyon. We will post further information on Friday.