Category: black mouse updates

Greetings, fellow supporters and caretakers of Black Mouse Disc Golf Course. It’s time for summer, and with it a summer update on course access and projects. Anyone interested in a workday followed by discount craft beers and reggae?

Course Closed Thursday June 6th and Friday June 7th

The school year wraps up on the SLVUSD Tri Campus next week, and that generally means the course is playable on weekdays in addition to weekends. However, graduation activities will require the course to be closed on June 6th and 7th. The very charter school that founded Black Mouse, Nature Academy, uses the stage on hole 5 for graduation ceremonies, for one thing.

They also have major renovations planned for the elementary and middle school parking lots this summer. During these times, do not park in the adjacent neighborhood.

Work Day and After Party on Sunday, June 9th

Steel Bonnet Brewery in Scotts Valley recently reached out to me asking how they might support Black Mouse. Since we’re not set up for teesign sponsorship, they offered to “sponsor” an upcoming work day by providing me with vouchers to give to those who show up mid-morning at the course for a bit or clearing and whatnot. Those vouchers can then be used for a discount on their craft beers that day.

The Shockwave food truck will be there, and my very own band SPAM will be performing from 3-5 pm. Let’s show up in force and turn it into an SLVDGC social!

This day will be as much about reconnecting as a group as making the course more playable. Show up at hole 1 at 10 AM, and bring gloves and whatever tools you think will help us move debris and give The Mouse a facelift.

Everyone is welcome; we’d love to see some of the folks from out of town who cherish the course as much as we do. Don’t bring alcohol onto the course, of course. That’ll be for later at Steel Bonnet!

Moving the Big Stuff

We still have some full-sized downed Douglas Firs and even a Redwood that need to be cut up and removed from the middle of holes. Ric Howard and I plan to renew our efforts to get a prison work crew from Calfire to get that done. Stay tuned!

Club Meeting, Work Days, and . . . Monthlies?

Hello to the millions of Black Mouse Disc Golf advocates around the world!

In my last update, I mentioned engaging the assistance of a prison work crew from the Calfire station in Bonny Doon to help cut up and move the numerous large trees that fell during last year’s epic storms. That hasn’t happened yet, and since it didn’t happen during summer break our next chances are winter break and spring break.

In the meantime, there is still plenty we can do to clear and cut up debris and remove potential hazards. I know plenty of the people who play the course come from over the hill, so hopefully we can loop some of them in to help. Stay tuned for an announcement of dates and times.

Next up, though, is a club meeting at Redwood Pizza in Felton on Wednesday, October 25th, at 6 p.m. Aside from nailing down a couple of work days, another key topic will be the launch of SLVDGC monthlies!

Finally, a little future gazing to excite your imagination. If we can crank up the “disc golf clubs can accomplish anything” machine, adding holes to Black Mouse, hosting events at Boulder Creek golf course (maybe a discount for club members who help maintain that course a little), and even creating a new course elsewhere in SLV are all within the realm of possibility.

If we can visualize it, we can do it. And if we build it, we know they will come! Hope to see a bunch of you next Wednesday.