Disc Golf is coming to the Blue Mountain Ski Area in northeastern Pennsylvania.

Blue Mountain, located approx 30 minutes north of Allentown and a very active disc golf scene, will be home to a Peak Course and a Base Course.

These two courses will be designed by Dan Doyle and Steve Brinster, who co-designed the Base and Peak courses at the Sugarbush Resort in Vermont.

The formal proposal was approved this morning and the owner of Blue Mountain is ridiculously excited to bring Disc Golf to her mountain. Her hope is that we can have 2 courses in the ground by early August, and we're contemplating a few events / gatherings for some weekends in late summer and early Fall of this year.

She'd also love for Blue Mountain to host a major event in 2010 so Steve and I will be brainstorming with locals John Duesler and Robin Billig to see what we can come up with.

The terrain features a vertical drop of 1500 feet from the top of the mountain to the base, supposedly the biggest vertical of any PA ski area. The property also features a wide variety of terrain at the base of the mountain which should allow us to create an amazing Base Course as well as a fun Peak Course. They'll also have a Pro Shop on the premises.

We'll keep you posted on our progress as we proceed.

Play well with others !!!

Dan Doyle, Warwick, NY
Steve Brinster, Hewitt, NJ

With the start of lift-served mountain biking at Blue Mountain this summer, it was only natural that disc golf would piggy back on to that.

Centrally located between the Lehigh Valley and Pocono regions, it will expertly serve both disc golf communities.

FYI, the vertical drop of Blue Mountain is however only 1,082 feet (http://www.verticalfeet.com) and not 1500. But a shot which plays down the Challenge double diamond slope would still be quite a knee knocker! :cool:

The Peak Course at Blue Mountain will officially open for play on Saturday, August 8th.

On August 8th, the resort is hosting their annual Beer and Wine festival. (It's almost like they knew our demographic). There'll be crafts booths and amusements so it'll be a family-friendly day.

The Peak Course, requiring a chairlift ride to the top of the mountain, will feature many awesome empty-your-bag shots. Although it plays predominantly on ski trails, there will be a number of holes where woods are brought into play.

The resort is planning to have concrete tees on all holes, although those tees may not all be installed by the 8th.

It is also possible that the Base Course will be playable that day as well.

The management team at Blue Mountain is SERIOUS !!! They are doing an amazing job making sure the courses and the resort are loaded with amenities: concrete tees, benches, garbage cans, and bag hooks at all tees, a pro shop, and food and drink.

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Purchase your tickets online - click here (http://www.shopskibluemt.com/OneStore/index.aspx).

For more information on participating breweries and wineries click on the links below.

Bethlehem Brew Works (http://www.thebrewworks.com/)
Yuengling Brewery (http://www.yuengling.com/)
Bavarian Barbarian (http://www.bavarianbarbarian.com/)
Weyerbacher (http://www.weyerbacher.com/)
Heineken (http://www.heinekenusa.com/)
Becks (http://www.becksbeer.com/)
Amstel (http://www.amstel.com/)
Victory Brewery (http://www.victorybeer.com/)
Woodchuck Cider (http://www.woodchuck.com/)
Dogfish Head (http://www.dogfish.com/)
Mikes Hard Lemonade (http://www.mikeshardlemonade.com/)
Magic Hat (http://www.magichat.net/)
Shock Top (http://www.anheuser-busch.com/pdf/Shock%20Top%20Belgian%20White.pdf)
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Landshark (http://www.landsharklager.com/)
Liquid Lighting (http://www.llenergy.com/)
Stonekeep Meadery (http://www.stonekeepmeadery.com/)
Penn�s Woods Winery (http://www.pennswoodswinery.com/)
Sandcastle Winery (http://www.sandcastlewinery.com/)
Cardinal Winery (http://www.cardinalhollowwinery.com/)
Shade Mountain Winery (http://www.shademountainwinery.com/)
Pocono Limited Winery (http://www.poconolimitedwinery.com/)
Starr Hill Winery (http://www.starrhillwinery.com/)




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Things are heating up this summer at Blue Mountain!



Disc Golf anyone?

This is not your Daddy's disc golf! Trust me, you haven't played a course like this before. Blue Mountain plans to unveil the newly constructed mountain top 18-hole "Peak" course on August 8th. Exhilarating fun is par for the course! Each hole delivers unique challenges, breath taking views, and the chance to send your disc soaring into the clouds (or woods if you're not that hot) as you work your way down the mountain. Don't worry about walking back up, we'll run the lift! Each hole is designed to accommodate every level of player from beginner to advanced. Watch our website (http://echo3.bluehornet.com/ct/3224456:4403368583:m:1:150801111:B19E093DC69700012 4DC5B8F1CEF78B8) for more details and for the date of the unveiling of the 18-hole "Valley" course.

Questions? ([email protected])

so here's the deal....

the cement truck driver shows up the other day at the top of the Peak course to start building concrete tees. this big manly man climbs out of his big macho truck, looks at the groomed fairways and the spectacular scenery of the valley below, and begins to sob. he's reduced to a whimpering puddle, unable to control his emotions because of the spectacle of this amazing mountain.

this isn't fiction folks. it happened. steve and i know why. we want you to come to Blue Mtn so you, too, can ball your eyes out.

steve and i almost shed a tear when we saw the concrete tees these guys are constructing. PERFECT !!! on a ski mountain !!! the manicuring; the selective mowing; amazing stone steps built into wooded fairways; this is one heckuva course.

we'll get some photos posted as soon as we can. the PEAK course, believe it or not, is almost done. the design is completed. concrete pads will be poured all week. baskets arrive this week.

UNBELIEVABLE !!!

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This is not your Daddy's disc golf! Trust me, you haven't played a course like this before. Exhilarating fun is par for the course! Each hole delivers unique challenges, breath taking views, and the chance to send your disc soaring into the clouds (or woods if you're not that hot) as you work your way down the mountain. Don't worry about walking back up, we'll run the lift! Each hole is designed to accommodate every level of player from beginner to advanced with plenty of Par 4�s & Par 5�s. All 18 holes on the mountain will feature two layouts with concrete tee boxes and either two tees or baskets per hole.
"Sneak Peak"

Don�t miss the upcoming �Sneak Peak� of our mountain top �Skyline Park� Disc Golf Course August 8th.
Blue Mountain will be opening for a one day preview of our upper disc golf course on Saturday, August 8th in conjunction with our 2nd Annual Best of Both Worlds Wine & Beer Festival.
This fun day will feature craters,food,live music, beer and wine from local vineyards and breweries, and of course chairlift rides to the top of the mountain to the first tee of the region's highest lift accessed disc golf. Guests who purchase a ticket for the Skyline Park Course and the Wine & Beer Festival will receive a $5.00 disc
Saturday August 8th- Lift access from 11 am to 3 pm.
Course fees: $10.00 $5.00 � with the purchase of a Wine and Beer festival ticket
Rentals: $4.00 � Three discs and a bag
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Adventure Saturdays - September 12th Through October 31st

Lift Access Disc Golf & Mountain Biking
Beginning September 12th Blue mountain will be open every Saturday* for Disc Golf and Gravity Mountain Biking (*excluding October 10th).
Mountain Bike Lift Tickets: $20.00 - Lift access from 10 am to 5 pm.
Disc Golf Course fees:

Peak Course �Skyline Park�- $10.00 � Lift access 10 am until 3 pm
Rentals: $4.00 � Three discs and a bag
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That looks like it may be worth a visit...

The mad alchemist has created yet another transmutation!

Master disc golf course designer Dan Doyle, father of the world class Warwick, Campgaw, & Sugarbush courses, along with co-designer Steve Brinster, one of the world's best disc golfers, have once again taken a middle sized ski hill and turned it into a brilliant venue for disc golf which offers unique challenges unlike any state park or town park disc golf course. In conjunction with some amazingly hard-working staff at Blue Mountain who worked diligently to make for the little touches that are the difference between an average layout and a superb one, the new track at Blue Mountain offers a professional venue, scenic vistas, thrilling downhill shots, varied tee and pin positions to provide flexibility for several skill levels, and some sadistic and masochistic hole designs which will challenge every aspect of your game and force you to use every shot in your bag.


The new "Skyline Park" disc golf course at Blue Mountain was designed in the spring of 2009 and plays down nearly the full 1082' vertical (biggest in the state of Pennsylvania) from the top of the Comet quad lift to the Valley Lodge base far below. The genius of the layout is that the front nine plays fairly open down the majority of the mountain on the Paradise beginner ski trail, while the back nine plays technically through the woods around the bottom of the ski area and over the Snowboard Half Pipe, Terrain Park area, and Valley School Beginner areas. This back nine plays similarly to traditional disc golf courses, although there are still extreme elevation changes and challenges galore. The dichotomy between the two sections of the course makes for an experience that is thoroughly satisfying and rarely boring; as compared to other ski area courses which can play somewhat repetitively down the ski trails, the Blue Mountain course brilliantly mixes it up. Those familiar with Doyle's previous creations at Sugarbush Vermont will find that the Blue Mountain course plays almost like a combination of the Peak and Base courses, which keeps things fresh at every turn.


Before getting into notes on individual holes, one thing that should be stressed is the hard work which the resort staff put into the course. It's one thing to just install tees and baskets to make for a new disc golf course, but it's another to take the time to get all the little details right to provide for a professional experience. During the course of play, I was constantly impressed at the superb concrete tees, the rock steps built in many places around the course, the landscaping around baskets, the mowed fairways and walking paths to next holes, wood chips around poleholes, signage directing folks to the next tee, benches at each tee location, both pro and amateur, and even water jugs and porto-potties set out on the course! The staff seems intent on making sure that disc golfers feel like they got every penny's worth of the meager admission charge for playing the course.


After a scenic chairlift ride up to the summit of 1540', an expansive, nearly 360 degree view unfolds before you. The Lehigh Valley is off to the south, while one can look east or west down the Blue mountain range. But with the north facing location of the ski resort, most will be awestruck by the wondrous vistas ahead of the foothills leading up to the Pocono plateau. Hole#1 shoots down towards the open area at the top of the Sidewinder & Challenge trails, and is a great opportunity to warm up the arm; from the Blue tee, it's a fairly easy 642' par four, and from the Am tee it's a reachable 405' par 3. As will be described on each hole, the Skyline Park course is somewhat unusual in that it features either two teepads and one pin position on each hole, or one teepad and two pin positions on each hole. This gives the course two separate layouts for varying skill levels even though it was not possible to put two tees and two pin locations on each and every hole. It's a great concept!


Hole#2 plays to a pin location set up on top of a large hill on the edge of the woods. It looks shorter than it plays, as the elevated basket location makes the hole play a lot longer.


Hole#3 is the first truly thrilling downhill shot typical of ski resort courses. Although it plays down the Paradise beginner trail, the elevation change is significant and one can throw a shot literally hundreds of feet further than is normally possible on park disc golf courses. (It should be noted that as Blue Mountain is my "home" ski area, I was constantly awestruck at how I remembered as "gentle" sloping terrain looking so very different in the summertime without snow. Let's just say that I have a new appreciation for the contours of this mountain now) At 645' from the Blue tee, it's possible to drive the green of this hole, and throwing a low beeline drive, both designer Dan Doyle and I put our drives within 50' of the basket! Where else can one throw a nearly 600' disc golf shot? The only trouble on this hole is a line of evergreens on the left with a severe drop-off past them - it is absolutely critical that golfers err to the right on this hole to avoid this significant hazard. The use of spotters may be a good idea here.


Hole#4 plays severely uphill 188' through a chute in the woods to an elevated basket position & green, with severe rollaways possible. The long pin is another 100' to the right and makes the hole multi-dimensional: one can choose to just concentrate on hitting the chute, or try for a more difficult shot which turns right after escaping the chute.


Hole#5 is a 426' open downhill bomber, whose Blue basket lies out in the middle of the Razor's Edge trail. This is one of the steepest slopes at the ski resort, and an unlucky putt which gets up on edge could theoretically roll hundreds of feet down the mountain. Thankfully, this one of the few such "evil" pin positions at the course. The short pin is 346' and a nice ace run.


Hole#6 is a wide open uphill connector hole which plays 309' at its longest. It's a great opportunity for deuce and sorely needed to offset the difficult holes which follow.


Hole#7 is an 835' pro par four from the Blue tee, and offers yet another opportunity to crush a disc golf disc further than you've ever thrown one before. The basket is set in a *really* beautiful pin location next to woods on the right-hand side. Similar to hole#3, the evergreens on the left side of this hole guard a significant dropoff where if discs stray, are likely not recoverable. To play it safe, I threw a Classic Roc off the tee and was left with about 300' to the basket. Never in my wildest dreams could I imagine throwing a Classic Roc over 530 feet!


Hole#8 plays either 400' or 444' down to one of the wide switchbacks on the Paradise trail. The white tee offers a straightforward look at it, but the Blue tee is set so that a left-to-right turning shot is required. A sidearm for a right-handed thrower is probably the preferred shot here.


Hole#9 is the last of the downhill ski trail shots and plays down the steepest terrain on the Paradise beginner trail. Here, the dangerous shot is one that breaks right and past evergreens. Dan threw one which ultimately got away from him and disappeared up to the right, over the trees, and off the side of the mountain, never to be seen again. The approach may be trickier than the drive, as it possible to fly another hundred feet past the polehole if you're not careful.

Hole#10 is where the technical part of the course begins, and the first of these is a real beauty! From the long tee, it plays 324' from a chute in the woods, across the new Dreamweaver slope, and up to a basket perched in a chute in the woods on the other side. It's a skillful deuce.

Hole#11 is a fairly straightforward par 3 hole across the flat outrun of Razor's Edge, but there's a significant dropoff past the polehole - ace runs which miss could turn deadly.

Hole#12 will likely be the most debated hole on the course. From the Blue tee, it shoots through a very tight window through the woods - way too tight, imo. The low ceiling on the hole also prevents drives from the short tee from legitimately reaching the basket, which is perched up the last steep portion of Paradise. I think this is one hole which could use a little more work, especially with some dead limbs removed from the right side of the fairway to open up the Blue fairway.

Hole#13 is my pick for the best designed hole on the course - it's a pro par five hole of 750' from the long tee in which three placement shots are necessary to grab a score of birdie 4. The landing area is on the ski trail, but the second shot then climbs up a road through the woods to the short pin position, and makes for a nice par four. Big arms could theoretically score an eagle three here on the long pin position, but once again the pin is set precariously and errant shots right could end up far, far away.

Hole#14 plays down a fun section of the course called "The Falls." In the wintertime, it's nothing but a bump on the outrun of the Challenge trail, but in the summertime, it's practically a cliff. The two pin positions play 345' and 375' but it's really just a putter shot off the tee. The amateur location is out in the open while the pro basket is tucked right into trees making for a tougher deuce. Take care walking down to the baskets from the tee, as it is quite slippery here.

Hole#15 is a relatively straightforward par three which plays only 339' at its longest, and is an excellent chance to score a 2 and get a stroke back which you might have lost up on the mountain somewhere.

Hole#16 plays across a deep wooded gully at the top of the half-pipe. The short tee is only 177', but the long tee plays a full 250' longer. To avoid this gully area from the Blue tee, a righty hyzer route exists around the outside for throwers that want to take the safe 3. Errant shots into the gully from the Blue tee almost ensure a bogey.

Hole#17 plays out of a very tight wooded chute, with the short pin position up the hill to the left on the Valley School East slope. The long pin is another 260' feet further and through a woodline out on the Valley School West slope. I like this hole because the preferred way to play it is a left-turning shot off the tee, and then a right-turning approach on this really sweet pro par four. You'd be very enthused to score a birdie three on the penultimate hole at Blue Mountain.

The final hole#18 is a monster 609' to 810' pro par five hole from both tees. The drive is open until your disc must pass through a narrow opening between trees and a fence. From there, the hole is another 450' or so down a wide slope to a pin position tucked up in the woods above the snowboard halfpipe. Approach shots which fall short and right may end up actually in the halfpipe, which is a really neat hazard. It's a hole where it's not too difficult to score a birdie 4 as long as you avoid trouble on the first few shots. Pro par on the long course was 31 (front) + 33 (back) for a total of 64, and I couldn't complain about a 66 my first time through, with NO lost discs.

Unfortunately, after the “preview” day on Saturday August 8th, the Blue Mountain Skyline course will not open again until Saturday September 12th. At that time however, it will be open every Saturday through September and October before closing for the season on Halloween. I would highly encourage those who are interested in experiencing disc golf on another level to check it out! (with a few caveats)

1) For disc golfers who play in the novice/recreational division at Ammo Series or PDGA-sanctioned events, I am sorry to report that this course is not for you. Without good control and knowledge of your disc and how to play downhill and headwind shots at ski resort courses, I am quite sure that you will throw many errant shots into very nasty rough with thorns & poison ivy. You will no doubt lose several discs and come away scratched, battered & bruised and not enjoy yourself very much. I played the course with several 15-year or more veteran pro players of considerable ability, and they lost four discs total in the course of play.

2) Wear hiking boots and/or appropriate footwear! There are some steep sections of the course which require good shoes. This is not a course you can easily play in flip-flops or sandals. Also, bring water and sunscreen.

3) Count on a round of disc golf taking 3 - 3 1/2 hours, and possibly considerably more. It took us nearly 2 hours to play the front nine, and then another 1 1/2 hours to play the back nine. If you end up looking for errant throws, you may spend considerable more time on the hill.

4) Bring old discs you don't mind losing. There are some places where it is undesirable to look for errant throws, and other places where it is practically impossible to retrieve a bad shot. If you're throwing old plastic which you don't mind if you lose, you'll enjoy yourself much, much more. Write your name and phone number or e-mail address on the disc and the ski patrol may end up finding it.

5) Play the tees and baskets appropriate to your ability. For disc golfers who play in the amateur divisions at Ammo Series or PDGA-sanctioned events, you should be playing from the white tees and to the white pin positions. These are the tees which are best suited to your ability and give you the best shot at shooting close to par. There is little joy in playing tees which are way above your ability and result in many lost discs, errant throws, and scratches & poison from ivy from trying to retrieve bad throws. We found it very curious on Saturday seeing several groups of disc golfers playing the long course, and it was obvious they were not on the appropriate tees, and they did not appear to be enjoying themselves. There is no "shame" in playing from the shorter tees, which are only marginally shorter, still extremely challenging, and play to a par of 60.

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The view from the 645' pro tee on hole#3. I put my drive where the brown hillside meets the grass, to the right of the polehole, a nearly 600' huck! Don't go left into the evergreens, or you can kiss your disc goodbye.

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The view from the 835' pro tee on hole#7. I threw my drive about 150' short of the dirt road on the right, but unfortunately, my approach was poor and hyzered off to where the people below the basket are, and I took a 4. Once again, going left is death.

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The view from the 738' pro tee on the 9th hole. Dan Doyle threw one that climbed, turned over, and disappeared over the lighter shade of evergreens on the right, which was literally off the side of the mountain.

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The view from the 10th tee. This is where the course becomes more like a traditional disc golf course, and plays mostly through woods. '

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The 750' pro par five 13th hole, possibly my favorite on the course and the best designed hole, imo. You throw a drive to the base of the hill on the left, then a severe upshot to the landing area past the Am basket, then a 200' approach to the polehole which is on the side of the ski slope and has a VERY fast green. A big arm could probably eagle this hole by throwing a monster upshot. It's 550 feet to the Am basket, so I don't think throwing to the Am basket or landing on the road is an option. To the right of the road is also a HUGE dropoff into the mountain bike area.

Reportedly Philadelphia area golfer Nate Krahn has set the course record on the long layout at 54. :eek:

the blue mtn ski resort will be operating its chairlift until the end of october on saturdays from 10:00 thru 3:00.

this time of year is spectacular in the lehigh valley. the Peak course is as much fun as one can have playing our sport.

come check out this course. it's definitely worth a day trip. if you get there right at 10:00 you'll have time to play the Peak course twice.