Shelton Springs Disc Golf and some Geocaching

It was going to be a nice weekend so Ben and I decided to do some disc golf.  I haven't done this in at least a year.  I was definitely going to be rusty.  Ben arrived at my house early afternoon.  We drove his car because mine went up to Seattle the night before.  Neither of us had been to Shelton's disc golf course so we had to look up the address.

We made sure we had everything and headed up towards Shelton.  The disc golf course was wooded and right across the street from the high school.  They were having a weekend track meet so there were a lot of people in the area.  We also found out that the disc golf course shared a trail system called the Huff N' Puff. 

I like how they misspelled leash.  Haha!

There were several kids warming up for their races out here.  We grabbed our bag of discs, the selfie stick and tried dodging kids as we followed the signs to tee #1.

As we arrived, two other people (Connor and Roger, a son-father combo) were also looking for tee #1, they looked like they had no disc golf experience so they asked if they could join us.  We said sure and told them to feel free to ask questions if they had any.  We teed off from the elite pad, the black pad, rather than the beginner red pad.  They kept with us until about tee #4, then they decided to go off on their own.  We found a rogue disc with a guy named Todd written on it.  Ben called the phone number on the disc and we got no reply.

We continued on, taking turns teeing off and searching for our discs when they went off track and into the woods and bushes.  For a brief moment we thought we lost one of Ben's discs but magically found it in an area we didn't think it went.  We were either at par or under par.  There were a few occasions when we were over par...especially the ones that were over 350-400 feet.

Overall, I thought the course was very well marked and taken very well care of.  I saw that this course had hole sponsors and a disc golf club that kept the area neat and tidy.  I would have liked to see more obstacles besides trees and brush...maybe a small pond or something.

We finished our 18 holes and then walked back to the car.  We wanted to find a few geocaches together so I took him to the area around Walmart.  The first one, DVS Addictions (GC5GKZ2) was a bus stop cache.  I really hated these ones because everyone can see you looking for them and this one was near a Taco Bell and a coffee drive-thru.  I was hoping we could find it quickly but they are all different.  I tried looking for it and when that didn't work I started feeling for the cache.  Low and behold (literally) I came up with a fake piece of chewed gum with a nano inside of it.

Then Todd called us back and told us he could meet us over by the Walmart since that's where the next cache was.  Todd thanked us for finding his disc.  He really wasn't what I expected when he arrived.  He was in his 40's, kinda overweight and not the athletic type but with disc golf it doesn't matter.  All ages, sizes and shapes play.

We looked for Outskirts! (GC4BRGD) and it could have been anywhere along that fence line...it just depended on where you looked and where the GPS took you.  I overlooked it twice before Ben pulled it out of its hiding place.  I've found several over the years similar to this one but like I said it just depends.

We drove down towards the old part of Shelton talking about what we wanted for dinner.  We ended up grabbing one more cache at Kneeland Park (GC5HX78), we had to be extremely stealthy (lots of kids playing on the playground) while we looked and found the small Altoids can hidden in similar fashion along the fence line. 

We didn't want to stay in Shelton for dinner so we drove into the Westside to try our luck.  We haven't been to Outback in a while so we went there.  The last time we were here we had a free bloomin' onion.  Ben ordered a beer and I had the Wallaby Darned peach drink and it was delicious.  I recommend it to everyone!  We also got a bloomin' onion and decided if we wanted steak or not.  Ben was going to treat himself to the best steak on there rewarding himself for getting a firefighting job.  I got a small, cheap steak, a baked potato and a salad.  He got the same thing just a bigger and better choice of steak.  We gobbled it up.  It was sooo good!

From there, we just headed back to my house and hung out.  He had to go back to the fire station and get ready for his last Sunday at the casino.  I am so excited to be able to hang out with him on normal weekends again!!

Next Adventure:  Nisqually Wildlife Refuge