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Chapter 10 - Making It
Minden-Tahoe used to have enough glider activity to keep two glider operations in business: Soar Minden and High Country Soaring. Somewhat by chance, I picked Tony Sabino's Soar Minden to help me toward a diamond badge. Tony is the only glider operator now. High Country Soaring went out of business in 2004, driven by a downturn in business and by friction with airport management. |
he Minden-Tahoe Airport sits at an elevation of 4,718 feet in Nevada's Carson Valley. As gliderports go, it is large. One of its three paved runways is long enough to accommodate jets. A second one is used mainly by gliders. The third one, rather neglected and with weeds growing up through its macadam, is partly a glider parking lot and partly an emergency strip to be used when the wind is howling down its length or when things get so busy that a glider needs an alternate place to land. A dirt strip parallel to one of the paved runways is used by landing tow planes and by the occasional glider when the parallel runway is otherwise tied up.
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