The Mountainview DGC sits just behind Mojave Community College. The college is right on Hiway 95 making it easy to find. The course begins right next to the nature walk trail. The terrain is flat desert scrub climbing up onto steep hillsides. The shrubs are tall enough to hide the baskets and I found this to be one of the drawbacks here. After playing about ten courses in a row with Innova Discatchers with the yellow bands, Mountainview has simple sliver DGA baskets. They are extremely difficult to spot in the scrub. The course has the simple old school fiberglass signs. There are multiple tee pads for each hole, the shorter YELLOWS, the middle REDS and the longest TANS (Tans, Who uses tan as a tee color in the desert?) There are 4-5 throws from the hills/tops that would be so much fun without the wind.

There is some climbing involved and especially the climb up to # 3 was rugged and difficult, up the loose rock wall.

The tee pads are terrible. On some of the "Top of the World" shots, there is no way to get any kind of run-up without endangering yourself. So you mostly have to stand and throw.

The wind was blowing so hard that it mostly took all the fun out of the big air throws. The wind simple knocked my throws down.

The baskets just blend in the surrounding desert terrain. I was never able to locate # 7. From the top, I couldn't spot the # 8 or the # 9 basket, even after spending many minutes scanning the landscape below. I finally located them after walking down the mountainside.

This is a true desert course. It's rough to walk on. It eats up your discs. Personally, I think desert scrub is not real visually attractive.

On a calm day, this course would be worth the price of admission just for the "Top of the World" shots. Then you add on three tee locations for each of these and you're treated to a wealth of fun, downhill bombs. Maybe early in the morning would be a nice time to beat the heat and the wind. I arrived in the afternoon and windy defeated me.