Thumber
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Yesterday was my first day with those as well. Way better than Yaktrax!
1000% better....well worth the money....especially with the MEC / RDI return policy
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Yesterday was my first day with those as well. Way better than Yaktrax!
I have not found a ribbon and taping combination that work for me so I am stuck waiting for league and tournaments so I can have spotters.
What doesn't work for you?
A few things I've learned about wintertime disc over the past 10 years:
2. I don't use ribbons. If the snow is really deep then a spotter will work much better. I've also become good at looking for the mark that a disc leaves upon entering the snow. I don't like the process of applying the ribbons since I play a lot of rounds in the winter, and I've also heard a few stories of the ribbon cutting fingers upon release.
5. If you play nighttime disc with deep snow and use LEDs then it is actually easier to find your disc than playing on a nice summertime day. The LED will light up the snow around it creating an orb of light. I'm a big fan of nighttime winter golf.
My biggest mistake is probably using party ribbon and I suppose I get what I pay for. They have a tendency to curl and twist thanks to the rotation of the disc. Sometimes it spools under the disc when it knifes into the snow.
Secondly, I used electrical tape because of how sticky I thought it was. It bonded really well inside where it was warm, but after a few times in the snow it lost all stickiness.
On my second attempt I used a longer strip of that ribbon and used Gorilla Tape. I also used two strips of tape, Xing over each with with the ribbon coming out of the cross-over. On my first attempt I ran the ribbon the length of the tape and I thought maybe it was causing less of the tape to contact the disc. By crossing them over each other, I thought I was making more contact with the disc. For my Ascent, this seemed to work well but it immediately fell of my Z Buzzz SS and then off my Gold Line River. It was falling off my GL Striker when I decided to just rip it off.
The combination I was using this second time around was absolutely killing the glide of these discs. Without glide the River and Buzzz SS fly so differently and the Ascent really needs to be muscled to get anything out of it.
In two weeks I will be at the Winter Carnival Ice Bowl where one of the rounds will be an all-night marathon. I will have to tape a light with clear tape. Hopefully that hold far better than the other tapes I have tried because if the light comes off in flight, finding that disc at night in the snow is going to be impossible. I am really looking forward to this experience, but seaching for a disc in the snow in the middle of night is the last thing I want to do.
When is the glow round for the Winter Carnival? I'm registered for the Sunday round but don't remember reading about a glow round.
...if you are going to play the night round, you have to take a quick and free winter survival class held on Monday the 24th.
Secondly, I used electrical tape because of how sticky I thought it was. It bonded really well inside where it was warm, but after a few times in the snow it lost all stickiness.
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In two weeks I will be at the Winter Carnival Ice Bowl where one of the rounds will be an all-night marathon. I will have to tape a light with clear tape. Hopefully that hold far better than the other tapes I have tried because if the light comes off in flight, finding that disc at night in the snow is going to be impossible. I am really looking forward to this experience, but seaching for a disc in the snow in the middle of night is the last thing I want to do.
I do not know if there is an official start time for the night round. My current plan is to tee off for the Saturday tournament around noon. Right now I have one other person signed up with me but I am hoping to get more. That should put us at or around 3pm for finishing up. From there we are going out for a lunch/ dinner, change into dry clothes, and warming up a little. Unless there is a specific time for teeing off for the night marathon round, we are planning on teeing off sometime between 5 and 6.
I currently have 2 people sponsoring me, my wife at 5 cents a hole and my mother-in-law at 10 cents a hole. I am figuring at 100 holes for this marathon. It is a 28 hole layout at or about 2 hours per round assuming it is easy to find discs. I am definitely going to play until I drop.
I will find a way to warm up in the morning without going home, change again into dry and hopefully warm clothes, and play my Sunday tournament round teeing off at 9am or whenever Char and or Charlie get there and let us out.
You are welcome to join us because the more the merrier, and the more the easier to spot. The only thing you have to look into is that if you are going to play the night round, you have to take a quick and free winter survival class held on Monday the 24th.
I'm out of town this weekend ice fishing. I'm coming back on Monday, I just don't know when. If I get back in time I'll hit the class up if not, at the very least, I'll sponsor you. I'll PM you.
Yesterday I got in 27 holes, it was about 0F with 25mph wind, -20 windchill. I'm heading out today, current temp: minus 13, -30 windchill. Should be a great round.