DamtheMan
Birdie Member
I seemingly did my best to try and lose two discs in water today. First one a nasty kick, but it dropped near the shore of the river, only needed to wade in knee-deep and actually spotted the disc in the muddy water.
But the "throw" responsible for the thread came on the day's final hole. Water-crossing from higher up, never having failed to cross the water. Better yet, there was a headwind, so at worst I figured, maybe my disc will turn over and go over the path on the left to OB, but no chance of getting lost. Pull out my understable Cannon, rip and somehow into the headwind, it decides to go right instead. River comes in from the right and curves past the teepad. So as soon as I see my disc heading right, I'm like, yep, it's gone. And it is going at the water on a decent hyzer angle, so I head off for the walk of shame to the DZ. I get and my friend says he can still see the disc. I head past the bushes to the reeds by the river and there it is, somehow floating on the surface!
So we end up watching and waiting as the disc slowly floats along the current and wind pushing it, until after about 10 minutes, it reaches the reeds on the side of the river where the teepad is. Time to strip down to my skivvies and wade through the reeds, barely getting my feet wet, but rescuing second disc. It was floating the dome side up, still cannot comprehend how it ended up floating given the angle it should've hit the water.
But the "throw" responsible for the thread came on the day's final hole. Water-crossing from higher up, never having failed to cross the water. Better yet, there was a headwind, so at worst I figured, maybe my disc will turn over and go over the path on the left to OB, but no chance of getting lost. Pull out my understable Cannon, rip and somehow into the headwind, it decides to go right instead. River comes in from the right and curves past the teepad. So as soon as I see my disc heading right, I'm like, yep, it's gone. And it is going at the water on a decent hyzer angle, so I head off for the walk of shame to the DZ. I get and my friend says he can still see the disc. I head past the bushes to the reeds by the river and there it is, somehow floating on the surface!
So we end up watching and waiting as the disc slowly floats along the current and wind pushing it, until after about 10 minutes, it reaches the reeds on the side of the river where the teepad is. Time to strip down to my skivvies and wade through the reeds, barely getting my feet wet, but rescuing second disc. It was floating the dome side up, still cannot comprehend how it ended up floating given the angle it should've hit the water.