Check out page 82 of the pdf version of the Winter Catalog or watch for the catalog in your mail soon. You'll see the following paragraph advertising the new course.

Leverich Community Park
Our department has partnered with local volunteers to install our first disc golf course. The course has 12 “holes” and winds throughout the park. Park in the southern parking lot for the first tee! Watch for programs next summer.

By the time most of you read this (assuming anyone reads this at all) the disc golf course at Leverich Park will have been open for a week already. I have to admit that I didn't expect the course to be as busy as it has been. I knew it was a great location, and that the course would be fun to play, but for Pete's sake it is November. The grass is wet, there are slimy leaves everywhere and the days are really short. I didn't expect Leverich Park to be near this busy until summer or late spring at least.

Leverich Park Disc Golf is officially open to the public. Everyone worked hard and we got all the baskets installed today. After a short ceremony to celebrate course, everyone took off playing. I counted over 30 different players stopping by during the afternoon.

The current course record is -8 by Ryan Gwillim. Andy Robinson hit the first ace on the course on hole 9! Awesome.

Check out the pictures:

We will be installing baskets, tee signs, spreading bark dust and gravel and doing a few other minor projects in order to put the finishing touches on the course at Leverich park THIS Saturday.

If you can join us in the morning we will need a few tools to help out. Tools needed: Wheelbarrows, rakes, shovels, work gloves, adjustable wrenches for assembling the baskets and bolting tee signs to posts, and cordless drill/screwdriver and bits for drilling the posts and for screwing numbers to the tee signs.

I went ahead and installed basket #12 at Leverich Park today.

I can't wait until November 22nd when we can get the remaining 11 holes in the ground and give the course an official run through. We'll start the work party at 9 a.m. and will need several wheelbarrows, shovels, rakes, etc.

Following the work party we will have a little ceremony and let everyone that helps throw the first drive. Followed by a Stumptown Disc Golf Bag Tag challenge!

Rain, rain and more rain, but the rain didn't stop us from getting everything done we had planned at Leverich Park. We had over 30 people show up for "Installation day" and we set 14 anchors for baskets and 12 posts for tee signs. We were done in just over three hours. It was very encouraging for me to see the support from the Portland disc golfers (Stumptown Rocks!) as well as from Compass, and the Parks Department. Photos & More after the break!

The baskets are in Portland! The installation day has been set. It looks like the weather isn't going to cooperate, but I don't think that will hurt us.

If you are coming out please plan to be there by 9 a.m. We will be assigning work groups, and team leaders and then moving supplies to get started. If we have a good idea of how many people will be there for the day then we can assign work evenly, prepare for lunch for everyone, etc. If you don't show up till 10 then we might not have lunch for you.

We continue to prepare for "Installation Day". Brian H. and I went out and staked all the basket locations and tee sign locations at the park. I also revised the course map with the latest design. We have one final approval process for the specific locations of each hole coming this week, so it is possible there may be a few minor changes still.

We still have three holes left to sponsor. If you are interested let me know as soon as possible.

Anyone have a measuring wheel to measure each hole exactly for our signs and course map/scorecard?

The Columbian, 10/8/2008, Community

I did a little fundraising for the Leverich Park course yesterday and found three more sponsors for the course. I would like to welcome Bad Monkey Bikes, Harry's Locksmith Service and Les Schwab Tires as hole sponsors. With those three we now officially have over half the holes sponsored.