soaringXcellence truckee is a great and safe place to fly. The only risk is if you do a low approach to make sure you hit the first turnoff. Otherwise you have long runway to safely land, and a cross runway as well with no cliff to deal with.
JJ, I completely agree with you that there is a problem which we need to address, but respectfully disagree with your solution to do a low base to final just in front of the threshold. I am pretty sure the common to all the crashes was either mechanical problem or low approach. I will be interested to know if any accident ever happened with a high steep approach as i recommend. Unless the wind is over 20 knots (not 10) I rather make my base at a safe distance behind the threshold and at sate altitude and do a high steep approach with extra energy, amd if i overshoot the turnoff so be it. Of course if someone end up low on downwind they should not turn base behind the cliff under any circumstance.
We should really move this discussion to the soartruckee mailing list as i suggetsed earlier.

Ramy