This is an interesting course playing along rolling hills, deep woods, swampy valleys, and along side a pond all behind a small, mom and pop grocery store. Stop in the store, say hi, sign the waiver and off you go! Lorrie (I think that's how you spell it) was the owner and one of the kindest, inviting, positive people I've ever met. She'll print off a map if you need one as well but I digress, let's start playing!

The course starts just behind and to the left of the store entrance. You will see two yellow flags and a small tee sign tucked between a couple of barn or workshop like buildings, this is hole one. It's about a 300 foot RHBH hyzer, maybe less so. You'll notice they tied yellow ribbons to the basket in the direction of the next hole; it's nice to see this catching on from the Terrace Creek course. (Thanks, Tim the enchanter ) This makes navigating the course much easier.

The thing that makes me really happy about this course is the amount of holes: 13. The designer did an excellent job of using the land given and not trying to cram five more holes in here which would have taken out great holes to add "meh" or terrible holes so we can get "a full round". Too many times designers are trying to hit the "magic number" (as my friend Cefire would say) so that they can get 9, 18 or another accepted number of holes, usually a multiple of three. I'll end the beginnings of the rant there and just say great job designer, seems to be a good number of holes for the space provided.

The lines are fairly tight here in spots on the wooded holes and punishing even when the hole is short. Lots of crazy lines like super tight almost horseshoe lefty BH friendly to righty BH friendly holes. I used my overstable putter and mid quite a bit on this course. The only real open, long hole is two which is fun because of the rough guarding against a RHBH hyzer fading out too much which messes with your head a bit.

The tee signs are all new and have suggested route, distance, hole number of course, and the name of the hole which are all kinda cool like "gone fishing". There is also a secondary sign made out of tree trumps and what looks like a black sharpie giving hole number, distance, and suggested route. Even though I've seen this before it's still actually pretty cool. Baskets are all in good shape except for the temp Dr. Fred/Lake Stevens basket that's rusted on hole eight but NOT a big deal. There are still pvc/limbs in place of where the basket should be on several holes, three total I believe so keep that in mind.

This course will challenge you in the 300 foot and under range (except for hole two that is 400 feet or so) with lots of crazy, fun lines. You will use discs you don't use often and may even start carrying discs you don't normally do just to play this course. I think just about anyone can enjoy this course but it best suits intermediate to maybe advanced amateurs.

One could argue that some of the limbs need to be trimmed up a bit to open fair lines though I caution doing too much; better to do a little over time instead of doing too much, too quickly. Also once this course is officially open and starts to attract more players that will help open up lines as well as beat down some of the underbrush. The course is also very swampy in spots although Lorrie has said bridges are on the way sometime in the near future.

I like the dirt pads although many disagree with me on that. I think in order to keep them from rutting out they should get some used carpet and use that over the dirt now. I feel as though carpet is vastly superior to concrete because it's not semi permanent, you can move them around if the tee gets moved, and they don't destroy my plant leg/knee/ankle while also not being slippery and preserving the dirt underneath. One of the tee pads now is slanted downhill and another has a tree stump in the middle of it. Both of these have better options for teeing areas within ten feet; not sure why those areas weren't used instead as I don't think the lines for those holes are changed drastically at all.

There is a nice little pond on the property that you throw around but not over for the last hole. I would have liked to see a water carry, it's not the far to carry and there is an option to throw around. Oh well. That said 13 isn't a bad hole it just could have been better, as is it's the worst on the course IMO.

It's really nice to see another course popping up North of Seattle, and the second on Camano Island. This is also a cool little store with snacks and drinks and stuff, I think of it like the disc golf grocery store. There is room to improve and think it will over time.