Man, the devastation from the pine beetle down here is heartbreaking. The courses, and more importantly the ecosystem, are going to be irreparably changed.
We played Chautauqua Park DGC a couple days ago and it was a homeless camp. JFC. Pulled into a basically empty parking lot and found three homeless guys camping under the Welcome Center overhang. Another half dozen longing about the gardens and benches of the parking lot. Very sketchy, but lock the doors and get moving....right. We get to hole two to find a stoner kid, hitting rocks into #2's basket with a stick. Well, I take a seat and get UDisc pulled up and figure the kid will wear himself out. After a while, as he clearly sees us waiting, we simply decide to skip the hole. We then find another three or four kids hanging out on the green of #2 as we approach. Is school out? WTF. We move on to the tee pad of three, up the hill and find another half dozen stoners, smoking down on the pad. So, we ask what's going on? They are clearly not disc golfers. We were told to mind our business....fair enough, we skipped three and moved along to four. Ran into some more kids, but the round was fairly uneventful from there. A shitty round. Worrying about the car, concerned for the safety of my wife and dog. I am not sure if this is the norm for this place, but I abhor this kind of shit when bagging. Sure DOES NOT happen very often.
Rest of this trip has been spectacular. Got over to play Claiborne Lake yesterday. What a day of disc golf. Terrific courses.
