ditchell
09-06-2006, 12:04 AM
Ben and I checked out Brahan and Mastin Lake on Labor Day:
Brahan- crazy imposing when you park. like 3000 pine trees that were squished together by some sadistic disc god. its short- but theres always 20 pine trees between you and the basket. in theory if one could throw a disc dead straight, then you'll have a blast. on occasion i did just that it was good. other times i heard that sound that you can probably only hear in Brahan- a dead on smack of a dx teebird into a pine tree. its different from that sound at trussville or GW. more echo. should have probably stuck with the buzz but sometimes you see that magical hyzer line and have to try it. oh by the way my teebird goes right now.
mastin lake- great course. challenging but not ridiculous. plenty of variety. my favorites were the giant downhill holes...where you definately don't want to go off the front of the elevated box. as an aside, knowing a little about teepad pouring, that must have sucked. strangely, the signs at mastin rate most of the holes as par 4s. so you'd have to really try to leave there feeling bad about your score.
we left at 9am and were back around 4. great little trip and i'll do it again.
on a side note i got a esp buzz and have sunk THREE shots from outside of a hundred feet with it in about 3 weeks. one of them, on hole 3 at GW went through one of those trees they trimmed. through it. the other was an upshot on 9 and last sunday at doubles i hit one over the hill on 14. if a man could love a disc in this crazy mixed up world, that man would be me, and that disc would be my buzz. it also participated in my +6 round at GW, making my hoo-haaing about the +9 round silly.
Brahan- crazy imposing when you park. like 3000 pine trees that were squished together by some sadistic disc god. its short- but theres always 20 pine trees between you and the basket. in theory if one could throw a disc dead straight, then you'll have a blast. on occasion i did just that it was good. other times i heard that sound that you can probably only hear in Brahan- a dead on smack of a dx teebird into a pine tree. its different from that sound at trussville or GW. more echo. should have probably stuck with the buzz but sometimes you see that magical hyzer line and have to try it. oh by the way my teebird goes right now.
mastin lake- great course. challenging but not ridiculous. plenty of variety. my favorites were the giant downhill holes...where you definately don't want to go off the front of the elevated box. as an aside, knowing a little about teepad pouring, that must have sucked. strangely, the signs at mastin rate most of the holes as par 4s. so you'd have to really try to leave there feeling bad about your score.
we left at 9am and were back around 4. great little trip and i'll do it again.
on a side note i got a esp buzz and have sunk THREE shots from outside of a hundred feet with it in about 3 weeks. one of them, on hole 3 at GW went through one of those trees they trimmed. through it. the other was an upshot on 9 and last sunday at doubles i hit one over the hill on 14. if a man could love a disc in this crazy mixed up world, that man would be me, and that disc would be my buzz. it also participated in my +6 round at GW, making my hoo-haaing about the +9 round silly.