Snowmass - Yellow reviews
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Experience:
1 played
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Nice Track 2+ years drive by
Reviewed:
Played on:Jun 17, 2014
Played the course:5+ times
Pros:
- Beautiful scenery
- Challenging course
- Fun long flowing holes, with some really great long downhillers
- Nice baskets in good shape
- Good exercise -- lots of hiking!
- Pretty easy to keep track of your discs
- Not crowded
- Challenging course
- Fun long flowing holes, with some really great long downhillers
- Nice baskets in good shape
- Good exercise -- lots of hiking!
- Pretty easy to keep track of your discs
- Not crowded
Cons:
- Mostly wide open (not too many shots that require precision)
- Hard to find and poorly marked
- No real tee pads (treacherous!)
- Hard to find and poorly marked
- No real tee pads (treacherous!)
Other Thoughts:
This is the course I play most often. I like it, and it's fun to play, but it's probably not my favorite in the valley. With some nice tee pads it would definitely be a contender -- right now you've got to be really careful when teeing off.
The course is poorly marked and hard to find. For those familiar with Snowmass, the 1st tee is skiers left of Lynn Britt Cabin.
To get there:
- Park in Snowmass Village Parking lot #13
- Walk all the way up the road
- When you get to the top, take a left onto the dirt road
- Walk just a short bit until the road cuts up diagonally behind you and to the right. Face directly uphill at this intersection. The first tee is up this hill, about 10 - 15 min. It's pretty steep, and definitely not easy. When you reach the road, the first tee will be directly to your left, with the first basket straight uphill in the small patch of trees.
I drew a map of the course for my buddy while he was in town, linked below. Note: this map is for the early summer of 2014. The course gets changed, though I'm not sure of how often.
http://imgur.com/5hcKDI5
http://imgur.com/5hcKDI5&Tdakg4M
Course notes:
I play #7 and #17 as Par 4's, which I think is definitely the proper par for these holes, but others might disagree. Everything else is a 3, though #5 is perhaps somewhere in between a 3 and a 4.
#5 enters the trees on the right through a small alley (which you can't really even see from the tee), and you would rather be uphill than downhill -- the trees downhill of the alley to the basket a are super dense.
#12 is a fairly easy hole, though the pond definitely requires more distance than meets the eye. Throw around to the right, throw a <140g disc, or skip it. If you do throw a floating disc in and choose to jump in, be careful, it's really slippery getting out.
#13 is so much fun! Love that tee shot. Throw it low and more to the right than you would think.
#14 and #15 -- be careful now to throw it down the hill -- it can glide forever!
#17 - definitely want to keep it in the fairway -- the trees are dense. I've recently starting playing the hole out to the right, past the #16 basket, and find myself to prefer that path.
#18 - don't go long! There's a roaring creek back there.
The course is poorly marked and hard to find. For those familiar with Snowmass, the 1st tee is skiers left of Lynn Britt Cabin.
To get there:
- Park in Snowmass Village Parking lot #13
- Walk all the way up the road
- When you get to the top, take a left onto the dirt road
- Walk just a short bit until the road cuts up diagonally behind you and to the right. Face directly uphill at this intersection. The first tee is up this hill, about 10 - 15 min. It's pretty steep, and definitely not easy. When you reach the road, the first tee will be directly to your left, with the first basket straight uphill in the small patch of trees.
I drew a map of the course for my buddy while he was in town, linked below. Note: this map is for the early summer of 2014. The course gets changed, though I'm not sure of how often.
http://imgur.com/5hcKDI5
http://imgur.com/5hcKDI5&Tdakg4M
Course notes:
I play #7 and #17 as Par 4's, which I think is definitely the proper par for these holes, but others might disagree. Everything else is a 3, though #5 is perhaps somewhere in between a 3 and a 4.
#5 enters the trees on the right through a small alley (which you can't really even see from the tee), and you would rather be uphill than downhill -- the trees downhill of the alley to the basket a are super dense.
#12 is a fairly easy hole, though the pond definitely requires more distance than meets the eye. Throw around to the right, throw a <140g disc, or skip it. If you do throw a floating disc in and choose to jump in, be careful, it's really slippery getting out.
#13 is so much fun! Love that tee shot. Throw it low and more to the right than you would think.
#14 and #15 -- be careful now to throw it down the hill -- it can glide forever!
#17 - definitely want to keep it in the fairway -- the trees are dense. I've recently starting playing the hole out to the right, past the #16 basket, and find myself to prefer that path.
#18 - don't go long! There's a roaring creek back there.
