Twisted Flyer is going to be holding "Canyon Fest" the weekend of 11/10 and 11/11 2007 at Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Jasper, Arkansas.

THIS IS A TWO EVENT WEEKEND... SATURDAY IS NON SANCTIONED...SUNDAY IS PDGA SANCTIONED.

NON Sanctioned Saturday...
Sign Up until 9:15 AM
Players meeting at 9:45 AM
Tee Off at 10:00 AM

Breakfast and Lunch are available from the cookhouse for $5.00 each.

Entertainment by the Fayetteville FUNK Ensemble during and after the round.

Entry includes the TWISTED Skills Challenge and Ace Pot

All Pro Divisions (Men, Women, Masters etc)$35.00
All Advanced Divisions (same as above) $25.00
All Intermediate / Recreational Divisions $20.00
Juniors (all brackets, one division) $15.00

THIS EVENT IS A PICK YOUR OWN PAYOUT EVENT!!!

Twisted Flyer is going to be holding "Canyon Fest" the weekend of 11/10 and 11/11 2007 at Horseshoe Canyon Ranch in Jasper, Arkansas.

THIS IS A TWO EVENT WEEKEND... SATURDAY IS NON SANCTIONED...SUNDAY IS PDGA SANCTIONED.

PDGA SANCTIONED Sunday...
Sign Up until 9:00 AM
Players meeting at 9:30 AM
Tee Off at 10:00 AM

Breakfast is available from the cookhouse for $5.00 each.

BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH! THE COOKHOUSE WILL BE CLOSED AFTER BREAKFAST IS SERVED ON SUNDAY MORNING. BRING H2O AS WELL.

Entry includes the TWISTED Skills Challenge and Ace Pot

All Pro Divisions (Men, Women, Masters etc)$45.00
All Advanced Divisions (same as above) $35.00
All Intermediate / Recreational Divisions $30.00
Juniors (all brackets, one division) $20.00

THIS EVENT IS A PICK YOUR OWN PAYOUT EVENT!!! It is also the first SANCTIONED event to be held at the canyon. One of the last chances to get points this year.

This is going to be super sweet...

Good golf, good tunes, and Twist it all up....and you have a weekend that won't be soon forgotten...

Come out and support Joe and play disc golf in Arkansas...!

Innova and the UPS guy should be thru in the next day or 2 serving up all kind's of Destroyers stamped with the Tour Canyon stamp... Band is confirmed... food is set up. Where you at TTown? Who's headed to the Canyon/

The more I think about it the more I want to make sure I'm there on Sunday.
Guess, I'll have to set my alarm for 4:00am. :D

Jasper, AR Horseshoe Canyon Ranch Directions from Tulsa, OK.
take I-244 East .
Merge onto US-412 E (Portions toll). (106.7miles)
Turn SLIGHT LEFT. (0.1miles)
Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto US-412/W ROBINSON AVE. Continue to follow US-412 E. (37.9miles)
Turn RIGHT onto US-21. (0.6miles)
US-21 becomes AR-21. (6.6miles)
Turn LEFT to stay on AR-21.(9.3miles)
Turn LEFT onto AR-43. And drive through Boxely Valley to the Buffalo River. (4.3miles)
Turn RIGHT onto AR-74. (1.3miles)
6.2 miles to the ranch road, you will see a brown sign that says Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, and the turn will come up fast on to a gravel road. Turn right and the follow the road into the ranch.

I will be coming over for this one!! Looking to share a ride with someone...let me know

The more I think about it the more I want to make sure I'm there on Sunday.
Guess, I'll have to set my alarm for 4:00am. :D



For those of you who don't speak Wiseish this roughly translates to...

: "I am too old to play two rounds of that shizznit...so I will go down Sunday, after everyone else has exerted themselves on Saturday, and grab the easy win"

:o:D

Looks like college is finally starting to pay off for you. :D

Maybe the young one is getting wiser, but there is no such thing as an "easy win" at Horseshoe Canyon.

Man, I've got to get my hands on one(that's code for two or three) of those Twisted Canyon Destroyers

Man, I've got to get my hands on one(that's code for two or three) of those Twisted Canyon Destroyers



I hear that!!!

:cool:

So....who's going? All the cabins are taken right? Are the tent sites close to the cabins?

Mapquest tells me it's a 12hr drive, but I think I can name that tune in 10.

http://www.climbhcr.com/HOME.html

Click disc golf in this link. There is camping info as well...

I've put a tent up against the wall of one of the cabins before. Time it right and you should be able to cut that ten down to maybe 9 1/2. You know the Canyon, colors were good this time last week, so I can't imagine what it is going to be like this weekend. Oh yeah I do- It's gonna be alll TWISTED!!

Jasper, AR Horseshoe Canyon Ranch Directions from Tulsa, OK.
take I-244 East .
Merge onto US-412 E (Portions toll). (106.7miles)
Turn SLIGHT LEFT. (0.1miles)
Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto US-412/W ROBINSON AVE. Continue to follow US-412 E. (37.9miles)
Turn RIGHT onto US-21. (0.6miles)
US-21 becomes AR-21. (6.6miles)
Turn LEFT to stay on AR-21.(9.3miles)
Turn LEFT onto AR-43. And drive through Boxely Valley to the Buffalo River. (4.3miles)
Turn RIGHT onto AR-74. (1.3miles)
6.2 miles to the ranch road, you will see a brown sign that says Horseshoe Canyon Ranch, and the turn will come up fast on to a gravel road. Turn right and the follow the road into the ranch.



These directions are a little confusing to me. Here's a modified version-

1. Take 412 East out of Tulsa all the way to Hwy 21 just east of Marble, AR. Turn right onto Hwy 21 (it's a "T" intersection so the only way you can turn is right)
NOTE- Hwy 412 takes a little "zig" in Springdale at Thompson Avenue. You will have to make a right hand turn at the Hwy 71B stoplight and then a left at the next stoplight about 1/2 a mile away.

2. Follow Hwy 21 thru the square in Kingston, AR, and up and over the mountain to Boxley Valley and Highway 23. You'll have to take a left turn in Kingston to stay on Hwy 21. When you get down into Boxley Valley you will run into another "T" intersection. Turn left here to go North on Hwy 23.

3. Follow Hwy 23 North until it reaches Hwy 74 and turn right (East) onto Hwy 74. It's another "T" intersection. If you go past Hwy 74 you will end up in Ponca, AR and will need to turn around. When you get on Hwy 74 you will immediately cross a bridge over the Buffalo River.

4. Follow Hwy 74 East up the mountain past Steel Creek and through Low Gap, AR. A couple miles past Low Gap you will see a brown sign on the left that says "Horseshoe Canyon Ranch" -the turn will come up fast on the right onto a gravel road. Turn right and the follow the road into the ranch.

I just edited a mistake I made on the previous post.

Don't forget to stop in Kingston for pie. :D

Can't wait....

Really....really....excited....

Hard to express in text...

I just edited a mistake I made on the previous post.

Don't forget to stop in Kingston for pie. :D



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IT IS TIME!
Horseshoe Canyon time, come on boys and girls it's time to play :D If your not just a little bit giddy about getting to see and play the Canyon at this time of year you need to check yourself.

WOW, what an awesome morning....

Come on down to the Horse Shoe...

There's still time....

We are having a great time....

Everyone is having a great time..

There are two computers at the Lodge, otherwise there is no internet access.. Cell phones are kind of iffy too..

I can't remember all of the results but this morning the first three advanced players were:

Heath Whitley 58??
Joe Rotan 60??
Andrew Treat 62

The weather is looking great for tomorrow as well.

It's not to late to head down :cool:

Scores are up..

We had a super time...

Tulsa represented very well...

Wow! What a day. We leave at 4:15am and return at 8:30pm and only played one round. As always well worth the drive. :D
The Canyon was showing all her colors this weekend along with some fairly stiff wind.

Joe and the twisted crew had a great turnout of over 70 players for a one day event located in the middle of nowhere. I know there were people from Chicago, KC, Wichita, Tulsa, Sprinfield, St Louis and others. What a beautifull day. :D

LONG POST WARNING!!!
IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO READ A LONG ACCOUNT OF MY FIRST TRIP TO HORSESHOE SKIP THE NEXT POST!!!
WARNING!!!


In Summary: Andrew had a great time at the Canyon!! And will be coming back next year!

This concludes the summary.

Wow! What a day. We leave at 4:15am and return at 8:30pm and only played one round. As always well worth the drive. :D
The Canyon was showing all her colors this weekend along with some fairly stiff wind.

Joe and the twisted crew had a great turnout of over 70 players for a one day event located in the middle of nowhere. I know there were people from Chicago, KC, Wichita, Tulsa, Sprinfield, St Louis and others. What a beautifull day. :D



HellYeah Wise...that is a good description...except for the waking up at 4 thing... :p

This next piece is titled "Response to my first visit Horseshoe Canyon"

My dad and I started things out at about 8:45 on Friday when we left Tulsa.

We played Fish's private course at his home. Which is a really fun round around Fish's backyard....

We then continued to the Canyon.

We checked in and quickly went out and played the course....sometime around 2:30... I think...

Seeing this course brought me back to my Boy Scout days because Camp Orr is only 3 miles down the road from it. The Scout camp has a huge piece of that big shelf rock that hangs right over the river....very cool....but anyway....

There were a few holes that I can remember having the feeling of....hmmm this is way more fun that McClure.....

However, my first true impulse was that I did not like the layout of the course. Not because it is a lefty friendly course, which it is but more on that later, but because I thought they could have done more with the land they have...

But through the weekend I came to realize that there is a fine line between stunningly beautiful disc golf and exhaustion... :D....As in, I could envision a teepad that throws off a really high rock or something, but at some point the hassle of getting up and down hill eighteen times on rocky to mixed terrain can spoil the round.

I now appreciate the layout and I think that it has to be my number three favorite course behind the Lodge (#2) and Blackhawk (#1).

It is my undisputed favorite course as far as beauty is concerned...

But that is only the tip of the iceberg...

We had a very fun round on Saturday and that night we all rocked the basement of the Lodge out and did a Guitar Hero III tournament doubles style...

We had a Twisted Skillz challenge after every round and the course was a blast...and Joe hooked it up hard on the last skillz test "hole", or whatever, when he said that he would award free entry to the Canyon next year, as well as the Lodge next year, to anyone who could get a disc in each of the three shapes you could land your throw in....(there were three shapes that were out in front of you, the closest was a square worth 10, next a circle worth 10, and last a triangle with fifteen.)

There were three winners to my knowledge....Heath, Fish, and myself.

Needless to say we were all ecstatic! :D

Joe also started us up with the ring of fire in the morning, so we could all warm up together which I have never seen before and really enjoyed.... :cool:

It was an amazing event, and Joe and Kelldog did a great job with everything.....!

Thanks to everyone who helped put this event on and see you next year! :)

Did you play both the short and long course?

In the tournament? No.

Or just at any time? And no.

Did you play both the short and long course?



The "short course" is a misnomer...

That thing is pretty long as well. It plays around the camp area so you don't feel like your 50 miles from your cabin :o

I would like to personally congratulate Dave Wise for his first place finish.

Drove down there and kicked butt...

Way to represent TDSA Dave!!!

Don't worry about FurDog, I don't think he has ever made it a full round on either course. :o:D


By the way, THANK YOU for handling all of the scoring.
its nice to play an Arkie tourny and see the scores before your next birthday. :o

I noticed Fayed Nicholson beat his pops!!! Wow!!!

I think Saturday night may have has some thing to do with that. :o:D

Huge thanks to Twisted Flyer and everyone involved for an awesome event :cool:


any Okies that didn't make Canyon Fest '07 need to definitely make '08, any Horseshoe Canyon event should be a must attend kinda event, such as the Ice Bowl coming up on Feb. 23rd..........

the course is awesome enough, the wind was extremely fun to play in until I had a putt blow out of the chains before I could retrieve it

those scores speak for theirselves and those that shot the 57's or low 60's were playing truly outstanding golf

very cool seeing rated rounds at Horseshoe :cool:

I think Saturday night may have has some thing to do with that. :o:D



Or his one par..... :o

But I think Big Dave enjoyed himself...

He played one of his best national anthems ever...

)))))))))))))))))
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thanks to joe, watson, treat and the rest for good times at the canyon this weekend :D. i also enjoyed the ring o fire in the a.m. and the jams from big dave :cool:
see you all soon :D.

nice win wise ;)

I noticed Fayed Nicholson beat his pops!!! Wow!!!



Beat is not the word for it...more like absolutely DOMINATED his pops. I was very proud of him. As was eluded to earlier, I only had one 3 and one 2...the rest were 4s or worse...OUCH!! But I got to play on the dream card of 'lil Treat, Heath and Fish. We had a great time!! I did stay up until 2am saturday taking all the KC, MO, OK boys money in poker to the tune of $110. I took out Reese Swinea (Fly 18 guy) and Jack Lowe. So all in all it was a kick arse weekend. Thanks to Joe, Keldog and Papa Treat. As always it was run perfectly!! The skills challenge was the best one yet for sure! Will definately be back next year.

Domination was the name of the game! How many courses have a sanctioned course record of +3, and how many of those do you get a cabin and hot tub with? :D A BIG Thank You to Joe, Kelly, and Twisted Flyer for bringing eveyone together. The A.M. ring of fire was very cool, playing to music was awesome, and even though i was a stroke or two out, i heard the payouts were sick twisted. Big Dave, that was a rockin' anthem, the canyon never sounded so good. What about the player's packages though...you go and let all these kids loose on the canyon with brand new champ and pro destroyers, where's the bandaids, where's the pamprin? And did you see how the wind picked just as the first canyon stamp went sailing through the air. Awesome to see such nice players packs at the canyon. :D:D:D I want to give some props to the arkie boys for shooting some respectible golf out there, for having one, flat, no tee pad course these kids are getting good! Allright, I'll give some props to the okie boys too, the canyon abides. You okies best be watching out though. :eek: And one last thing, I am watching Steady Ed on Ripley's Believe It or Not right now.....Thank You to everyone who give to others the joy that is Disc Golf. :DThat was a lot of fun out there!

I think Saturday night may have has some thing to do with that. :o:D



Or his one par..... :o

But I think Big Dave enjoyed himself...

He played one of his best national anthems ever...



Thanks bro