Boy Scouts are a HUGE HELP - 18 baskets in the ground - ANYONE UP FOR A CHALLENGING COURSE ?

After last weekend with all of the hands on help from the Boy Scouts, the door was opened for one more day of work where the project of importance was placing the final 6 baskets in the ground. The course is now COMPLETELY in the ground and ready for all players to play 18 holes at Blizzard Hills. Along with securing the final 6 baskets, Jim Szyperski and Craig Prime transplanted 12 or more Pine Trees and cut ALL of the remaining trees coming down on Fairways 10, 11, 12 , 13, 14 and 15. All that is left for the week to come is picking up the brush and logs from our day of cutting, but the holes can be played, just please be careful walking within the lying brush.... The course will CLOSE for Rifle Deer Season, so get there quick and check out the completed 18 hole course.
Keep in mind, the concrete tee pads will be the addition we're all waiting for in 2010... For those of you that haven't visited Blizzard Hills, the course passes Ward Prindle's Blizzard Hills Bar 3 times while playing the 18 holes, 5 times if you consider walking across the parking lot as passing by the bar. Happy hour from 2:30 to 5:00 daily, open 12:00 until close Tuesday through Sunday, Monday's 4:00 until close.

And also for those of you that haven't yet visited the course, all 18 holes were HAND CUT from one of the thickest, unattended tracks of woods within the area. You find yourself wondering if you are in Michigan's upper peninsula when you see the deer, black squirrels, mink , duck, geese, fish and much more. And I'm sure that this is true with many courses and their crew that developed them, but to hand cut 18 holes thriough property like this is quite the undertaking. Jim Szyperski, Roger Myers, Lorie Szyperski, Craig Prime and many volunteers from the Pinconning Disc Golf Club and community supporters have combined efforts in the amount of 2000 hours or more to get the place to the point it is today. If you think that there's no course you can conquer, I invite you to visit one of the most challenging and multiple shot requiring courses that I've played in Michigan.

Blizzard Hills, Pinconning Michigan is nearly finished with all 18 holes. October 16, 17 & 18th., Troupe #150 from Westminster Presbyterian of Bay City camped, ate, WORKED HARD and learned the game of disc golf at Blizzard Hills Disc Golf Course. With the help of the 7 scouts, 3 leaders and 10 members from the Pinconning Disc Golf Club and Monday Night League, we were able to get ALL fairways cut through the thick woods. The posts have been set on all but holes 11 and 12, and these final 2 will go in this week. All that leaves for the cutting crew is some final trimming around a few tee areas, final cutting of a few annoying trees and some minor hauling of brush and logs to clear the walking as you discover the depth of this course.
The Pinconning Disc Golf Club made Troupe #150 the Official Scouting Crew for Blizzard Hills DGC and with doing so invited the group back next year for a weekend that has more disc golf than work. The scouts added a tremendous long time effect to the course by taking a 4' pine tree from the fairway of hole 10 and transplanting it within a few feet of the course map and hole 1 bag and meeting bench. If you look hard at the photo below, you'll see the pine between the group. To all of the Scouts and their leaders, we can never thank you enough for the weekend of hard work.

And make sure to check the new sign when coming to the course on Pinconning Road.

[get your discs and godiscn]

do so indeed, it's worth the trip. you'll find directions on most all of the online course directories

[donnyv]

Very cool
I'll have to stop by and check it out next time I visit my grandparents up there.

[get your discs and godiscn]

well then Ben, join the club I started for Boy Scouts (& Girl Scouts) past, present and future.
you may be the first to join and may even become the head moderator.

It was a great weekend working with the scouts. All 7 boys played their first round of disc golf and received their first mini so they have a start on getting into the gear and continuing the game.

[Ben Calhoun]

I am one, first played it there, with a frisbee.

[get your discs and godiscn]

great,you should join the club. In fact, once you join, I'll make you the chief eagle scout, I don't feel worthy since I never made it beyond the cubbies.

[Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun]

Got my Eagle in 1960.

[get your discs and godiscn]

let's try and find out. I'll start a club here on DGRUS for Past, Present and Future Scouts Of America that play Disc Sports

[Boom Boom Dino]

right on boy scouts ............ i wonder what % of Dgolfers are past boy scouts?

[get your discs and godiscn]

thanks Terry, we couldn't have done it without you and Sheila.

[Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun]

Heh. Nice work up there in Pinconning, guys.

To those who don't know: This course is designed so that it starts by the bar and ends by the bar, and in playing 18 holes you also go by the bar three other times :)