Trying out the Lake Trail Disc Golf course in the Comox Valley

By Keith and Heather Nicol

We had been hearing about the disc golf courses in the Comox Valley  recently so we decided that with Covid 19 sticking around we needed to find some new activities to enjoy outside. A quick look at the Comox Valley Disc Golf web site indicated 4 courses in the area so we bought a couple of discs each at The Blue Toque (https://bluetoquesports.com/). We started our intro to disc golf with the course near Lake Trail school. This is evidently a new course completed last year and by reading some of the on line comments we figured out that the biggest issue was with lack of signage so we made sure we asked some people at the start what the course layout was like which was a good idea. We would never have found hole number 4 for instance without this guidance.  Be prepared to ask some questions at the start if you see people heading out or ideally go with someone who has played the course to show you the way. The key thing to note is that the tee area is marked by a angled stump with the hole number on it. 

  

                                                         Heather tossing her yellow disc into the "hole"

     However once on the course we really enjoyed it  since it has some elevation changes and some holes cross Arden Creek which is a nice scenic attraction.  Since we are new to the sport we thought that another advantages of this course was its relatively short layout and reasonably open understory which means finding an errant disc is pretty easy.   The course currently has 12 holes and we are not sure if another 6 holes are planned to make it a full 18. One option for people who find some of the steep creek banks abit difficult to traverse is that they could complete holes 1 through 6 and then do 10, 11 and 12 which follow nicely from hole 6. This avoids dropping down and coming back up some slopes which could be slippery in wetter conditions.  This course is right next to the old Trail Bicycles store next to Lake Trail school. There is parking for several cars at the start.  We will definitely be back since we now know the course layout. 

 

                                                                          Walking across Arden Creek          

                                                                            Keith "teeing" off on hole 6.