At 18:27 27 December 2016, JS wrote:
Many places are seasonal.
The Appalachian chain with "a low up high and a high down low"
is loads of
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fun.
But the best soaring is often where nobody would go on vacation,
the Great
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Basin being a decent example.
Tonopah, Nevada is a great place for Summer XC but other than
the brewery
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here is little infrastructure left on Doon.
Ely has much better infrastructure, but no longer has regular
tows
availabl=
e. Don't think they have a brewery, but the hardware store has a
great
sele=
ction of stainless metric hardware.
You can fly the Great Basin from quite a few places along the
edge. The
Uta=
h locations are shy on decent beer.
Moriarty's pretty consistent weather combined with a relatively low
cost
of=
living has attracted many. And it has a brewery.
Come to think of it, Tehachapi has a brewery too.
Internationally, you won't find much population density (especially
with
an=
y wealth) outside of Windhoek, Namibia yet it's obvious that
Bitterwasser,
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Kiripotib and Pokweni offer tremendous soaring. December always
seems to
be=
the best for them. Wonder if they have a brewery?
Jim


The brewery is in Windhoek - not very far down the road (in the
scale of Namibia). Products get a pass mark!