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Bogus Basin - Pioneer

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The Valkyrie Kid
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Experience: 46 years 1562 played 1507 reviews
2.00 star(s)

Do Not Attempt To Play This Course Alone! 2+ years

Reviewed: Played on:Jul 25, 2014 Played the course:once

Pros:

As I drove up to the ski area at Bogus Basin, I was hoping to go into the lodge and get a better map and maybe find out some information about the course. Instead, not a chance, everything was locked up tight. So now I was trying to play this course alone.
# 1 tees off from the corner of the large basketball area. The hole is just a simple little 125' toss. The tee pads are natural and difficult to find. The baskets are older Innova models which are kind of beat. # 2 plays along a ridge about 200' away. # 3 plays back across the ridge. The ground here has been scraped bare by a dozer and some logging has been taken place It's bare and rough and unsightly.
# 4 I found a pad and looked down a beautiful, downhill fairway. I couldn't spot a basket to save my soul. I thought to myself that the basket should sit in that clump of trees 600' down this steep mountainside. But I'm not walking 500 or 600 feet down a mountainside to find the basket and then hiking back up again. So I skip throwing and hike down the mountain and eventually find the hidden basket right in the clump of trees where I figured it was. So I miss probably one of coolest throws here. And now I'm practically lost. I look up this steep hillside and I spot a basket about 450 straight up ahead of me. You're a 6200 ft. elevation and I have no intention of playing to that basket. As I'm trudging up this steep hill, I find the # 5 basket hidden in the brush off to the left. By now, I am a defeated, beat down, tired old disc golfer and this course and mountain have mentally crushed me. I barely have a will to live let alone the will to keep playing this course.

Cons:

The thick bushes, some are waist/chest high, will completely devour your discs.
Poorly signed, if any at all.
Rough natural tee pads.
Impossible to play alone-Don't attempt it.
More serious hiking than disc golfing.

Other Thoughts:

I don't know but I believe if you're going to advertise that you have a disc golf course, you should at least put forth a minimal amount of effort to make it playable. Some simple laminated signs would help out a lot and would take almost no # or effort. Tee pad work would take more manpower.
I've played a number of ski resort courses and this was my least favorite of them all. The mountain scenery is beautiful to look at but I would have gotten more enjoyment of just hiking around up here.
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