Discover new ways to elevate your game with the updated DGCourseReview app!
It's entirely free and enhanced with features shaped by user feedback to ensure your best experience on the course. (App Store or Google Play)
I waded in to retrieve a disc from just behind that tree following the ChrisMess Bash! I thought about commandeering the boat, but figured I should ask before doing so. Wading was quicker, but sure was cold!
I have gone above and below to find discs. I recall playing a casual round and somebody threw my Buzzz (I loaned them) into the lake....without hesitation I jumped in and went diving. They were all wanting to move on and wondered what I was thinking.....10 mins later...I found it, had to dive down over my head and avoid some fishing lures, broken glass and snapping turtles but I found it! - I have wadded in swamps, climbed trees, stayed out til dark, then come back the next day with hedgeclippers....I do not give up. only time I have given up is when a disc was 40+ ft out in a lake, at that point its really deep and hard to get down there. I do the same for my buddies discs, I keep looking, and I encourage them to never give up. Never surrender, no man left behind THUNDERGUN!!!
So did he retrieve the disc?
If he did, how did he get it down? You can't risk throwing it (too many branches), you don't want to risk dropping it to the boat, I'm guessing he slid in the back of his waistband and climbed back down.
Good question. I don't know....they just showed me the photo, after the deed was done.
Good question. I don't know....they just showed me the photo, after the deed was done.
The wet rocks on hole 2 at Don Shannon are slippery. Who knew?Having finished Hobbs and Tyus ahead of schedule, I headed to Don Shannon Memorial, thinking I could squeeze a 3rd course in that day. Get to a very scenic hole #2 - a water carry across some rocks/boulders that create a quick flowing rapids (pix don't do it justice):
Don Shannon Memorial DGC,
I got this. So I launch my driver and it hits the bank across the way.
... only to flip up and roll back toward the raging water!
Assuming I'll never see that disc again, I walk across the concrete blocks laid out to get to the other side. I make it most of the way, when I see my disc laying on a large flat boulder about 3/4 the way across the rapids.
Can't reach it with my Disc Gator, but think I can get out there to pick it up. Figuring I might need both arms free to balance, I leave my Gator on the far bank with my bag, and proceed to step/hop my way out to the rock... damned if those things ain't slippery. So I make it to the rock my disc is on, reach down to pick it up and my left foot slips out from under me. In about as ungraceful a manner as is humanly possible, I fall backward, instinctively swinging my left hand behind me trying to break my fall, mangling my left pinkie on the rocks. But the real kicker is that as I'm falling back, my right foot swings out in front of me... propelling my disc into the torrent. :wall:
My finger's dripping blood, I'm pretty much soaked, and I'm standing on a rock with water rushing all around me, hoping I can catch a glimpse of my disc… but nothing. So I rinse my bloody finger off in quickly flowing water. Make it back to my stuff and throw holes 3 & 4… when the sky opens up, like a message from the Lord himself to cut my losses and get the heck out of Dodge.
Here's what the seat of my pants looked like afterward: