High Mountain Doings

From 8200 feet along one side of the Upper Arkansas River Valley in central Colorado, my blog is about many things: travel including river and bicycle trips, and other experiences as well. The focus is on photography, not lots of text.

Thursday, March 23, 2006

Balloons in the Sky!

This was a day last summer when balloonists gathered in Buena Vista to fly. They set up on the old fairgrounds a mile or two south of town, and proceeded to launch when they could.

Balloons don't like wind—any wind at all is enough to keep them on the ground. So they only fly first thing in the morning while the air is still calm.

Here are two balloons out of many that weekend, bags erect and full of hot air. Mt. Princeton is in the background.

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