I'll be playing mt. course this weekend. Top is at 11000 ft. What's best to throw, understable and light weight? Both downhill and uphill shots. Thx in advance.

I'd say it depends on what you throw normally. If you are normally an overstable hucker, I wouldn't worry too much about the elevation, it's an easy release-angle fix. If you are normally an understable hucker, I'd suggest throwing lighter plastic.

I've noticed that understable throwers have much more difficulty in elevation. Valkyries act like teebirds, teebirds act like firebirds. However, firebirds still act like firebirds, just slightly more overstable. Catch my drift?

I would like to add that you can get away with using mids and putters on a lot of downhill and across hill shots.
I played Aspen a couple of weeks ago, and I didn't use drivers all that often. When I did I was using light Sidewinders for STEEP uphill shots and a heavy TL for a lot of very long downhill shots. The rest of the time it was a Roc or an Aviar ... even for some of the long downhill shots.
Depending on what course you're playing at that altitude ... control is the most important thing. You can't bomb your discs out into space and expect to find them if they go off course :p

What's best to throw, understable and light weight?



Bring the lightest and most understable discs you have - your beaters. You'll need your roller disc to achieve your typical backhand anhyzer air shot.

my home course is 9200 ft. i also travel to sea level and play alot. i like what dave d said about throwing a slower disc. what i try to do is throw a slower, slightly less stable disc at high altitude. the air is less dense, and therefore speed is not that important, but glide is. i found up here i can get a light teebird or tl to go further that my wraiths. whereas at sea level the speed of a wraith makes for longer throws. you also want to use dx plastic as the extra air friction this plastic generates is good. even a champ roadrunner will have a strong low speed fade once it comes out of its turn, where a dx teebird will hold straight longer. i throw 165ish leopards and tls alot at high altitude, where at sea level i would throw a 172ish wraith. the differences are much more noticeable in drivers than mids.

Bring the lightest and most understable discs you have - your beaters. You'll need your roller disc to achieve your typical backhand anhyzer air shot.



Exactly. This is the advice that helped me in Flagstaff at am worlds. I was throwing my 166g beat roc 300ft dead straight. My roller driver was the only driver I could turn over. Bring beat light discs! Also your putts will drop faster. Good luck!

Light understable plastic ?

I played Frisco about 2 months ago, I threw a TL on just about every shot, if I could have made a putt or 2 that day I may have shot under but came out a couple over. :(