2015 Nephi OLC/XC Final Report

On Monday, 6 July 2015 18:34:46 UTC-6, Mike the Strike wrote:
Bruno was an energetic and genial organizer with a great team backing him up. I and everyone I met there had a great time. The venue worked well with a pretty efficient gridding and launching and absolutely no landing problems - the combination of good radio procedures with Flarm enabled many gliders to land in a short space of time.

The weather was reasonable, but not as good as it can be. Overdevelopment and low cloud bases restricted the more faint hearted from pushing as far as they could, but despite this we had many great and fast flights. The Great Basin is one of the best soaring areas in the world and the Utah mountains on the East side are just spectacular. Nephi is well positioned to take advantage of these.

Of course, not everything was perfect and there were a few minor niggles, but the team is well aware of them and I have every confidence the site will continue to improve.

Mike

I am afraid to ask you to publicly to define and identify the 'few minor niggles'

It was hard to find good beer!

Mike

On Monday, 6 July 2015 19:21:22 UTC-6, Mike the Strike wrote:
It was hard to find good beer!

Mike

As I told you and Howard Banks (HL) I was expecting yuz guys to bring some of the micro brew(s) from Moriarty since you raved how great they were. There is a good selection of beers in SLC but not in Nephi. Small price to pay and stop sniffling about 16K MSL top of lift!

You should have picked up a case or two at the brewery a mile from
Moriarty airport before you left... :-D

On 7/6/2015 7:20 PM, Mike the Strike wrote:
It was hard to find good beer!

Mike

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Dan Marotta

Ron
I promise to bring beer next year.
3C

It was hard to find good beer!

Mike


There is actually a small liquor store in downtown Nephi that
has an excellent selection of very good beers.

It is on the main road going through nephi on the west side of the road. Almost
across from Lisa's restaurant maybe 1 block north.

It is not well marked and easy to miss, also they have weird hours and close early so you need to stock your cooler before you fly!

Joe EZ

There is actually a small liquor store in downtown Nephi that
has an excellent selection of very good beers.

Sorry, but I must disagree. I checked out that liquor store and ran away. Being a beer snob from PDX, this is definitely a BYOB town.

Craig 1CR

On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 1:09:17 PM UTC-7, Craig Reinholt wrote:
There is actually a small liquor store in downtown Nephi that
has an excellent selection of very good beers.

Sorry, but I must disagree. I checked out that liquor store and ran away. Being a beer snob from PDX, this is definitely a BYOB town.

Craig 1CR

Maybe we'll have to organize a beer exchange for next year. I'll bring some from little Portland of the north (Bellingham, WA where we have 80,000 people supporting 6 existing breweries & 5 more on the way). We love our beer too!

Everyone bring some of their local brews and we can have a tasting party.

Craig 7Q

On Tuesday, July 7, 2015 at 1:09:17 PM UTC-7, Craig Reinholt wrote:
There is actually a small liquor store in downtown Nephi that
has an excellent selection of very good beers.

Sorry, but I must disagree. I checked out that liquor store and ran away. Being a beer snob from PDX, this is definitely a BYOB town.

Craig 1CR


Two additional points.

Craig is indeed a beer snob. The state liquor store had Guinness, Newcastle and (to my taste) a pretty good Dopplebock, among other (admittedly not vast) selections. Bring your own beer if that's dishwater to you - or for variety. The grocery store beer is the not so hot 3-2 variety. :-)

In addition to all the OLC/XC flying there was some pretty amazing racing tasks called with speeds in the 90s to over 100 mph (on several days) for the ballasted FAI class. Friday saw a declared 750k with a winning speed of 94 mph. I'd call the week about average for Nephi in terms of weather. It makes me optimistic for the prospect of some bodacious flying at the Nationals next year.

Many thanks to Bruno, Ron the Utah Soaring Association, the tow pilots, all the volunteers and Nephites who support these events every year.

9B