It's time for the disc golf Ice Bowl - BurlingtonFreePress.com
The motto is no wimps and no whiners.
If you want to run through the snow and snap your wrist for a good cause, there's still time to sign up for a Jan. 31 disc golf event in Waterbury Center.
The GMDGC Ice Bowl IX will run from 8 a.m. to about 5 p.m., with stops for a chili and corn bread lunch midday and awards and prizes after the afternoon shift.
The event benefits the food shelves in Washington County and Lamoille County. Experience playing disc golf is not necessary to enter but a sense of fun and a warm coat help.
Some years the benefit takes place in bitter cold or deep snow. Other years it's bare ground or balmy (at least by Vermont winter standards) temperatures.
A participant at a previous Ice Bowl in Vermont. (Photo: Courtesy photo)
"It doesn't matter what the temperature or conditions are, the event goes on," said Chris Young, tournament director and president of the Green Mountain Disc Golf Club. "One year we had a couple feet and it was tromping through the snow, which was harder work. And I think it was 2011, it was 8 below when I showed up in the parking lot."
Last year the event raised $9,450 and Young hopes this year's tally will be higher.
The food shelves are grateful for the help. "The cash goes a long way for them to be able to buy food and give it to people who need it," Young said.
There are ice bowls all around the county with the same goal. "The mission is to fight hunger, especially during the cold winter months, hunger is a big, serious problem," Young said.
This year’s disc golf Ice Bowl is set for Jan. 31 at Hope Davey Memorial Park in Waterbury Center. (Photo: Courtesy)
Playing disc golf in the winter is good a time.
"Getting out with your friends in the woods, getting some exercise, getting outside, just throwing the disk, throwing the Frisbee, is something everybody enjoys," Young said.
Entry fees vary, depending on how many mulligans, or extra throws, contestants want. Each mulligan is basically a chance to wipe out a throw the player doesn't like and take another.
Basic admission is $20; admission with hand warmers and 36 mulligans is $50; admission with unlimited mulligans is $150.
"You could almost buy yourself a win," Young said. "It's all about raising money."
The event takes place at Hope Davey Memorial Park, on the par-54 Center Chains disc golf course. Same-day registration is allowed. Lunch and awards are across from the park at the Waterbury Center Grange Hall. More than 60 prizes have been donated by local businesses, said Young.
"My goal is to have everybody go home with something."
To register in advance or make a donation go online to gmdgc.org
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