Recent News & Flight Blog

It’s now late fall flying and we had a couple on-board last night from the Capital District for a private flight. You could really notice the dividing line in the sky between the clear skies our way and the coastal storm that brought snow to the New England Patriot’s football game in Boston.

Bob and Denise

The flying weather for hot air balloon rides looks good for most of this week with near average temps for this time of year, much warmer than last week. We have plenty of space available for flights on mornings only during the week and just a couple of spaces left for the coming weekend. The weekend of the 31st – 1st is my last for this year. After that, it’s the spring of 2010 and a new season of hot air balloon rides in the Lake George, Saratoga Springs, Albany, the Capital District region.

Brrrr, now that was a cold one this morning. Mid 20s, yikes!! We had 2 couples from the Capital District and a couple from Brazil brave the cold this morning.

Ron & Pam, Jennifer & Dirk, Renata & Mauricio

Getting any more flights in this weekend is any one’s guess at this point. There is another coastal storm getting it’s act together for overnight into Sunday, and it appears some type of trough trying to move into the area for later today, ahead of the main coastal system. So we’ll see whether we get any more flying in this weekend.

We had some good flying weather the middle of the week before the coastal storms started to affect our flying. We are not expecting much, if any precipitation out of the coastal systems, but the wind is a problem for getting our flights up. On a positive note, looks like our weather will warm up during the coming week and we are still available during the  morning for flights during the week, morning and afternoons on the weekends until the end of the month.

The Hanus Group on a frosty Wednesday Morning

The Sisario Family on a lovely Wednesday afternoon

Pat and Barbara on a frosty Friday morning flight

Our other Friday AM passengers, Michele & Bob

We managed a couple of flights over the holiday weekend. Weather wasn’t the best, but that’s been the recurring news for this flying season.

Our hearty Monday AM flyers on a frosty morning - Christine, Ed and Virginia

Our Monday PM flyers - Michael & Amy

The balloon flying weather looks better for this week. After today, high pressure should dominate for a good part of the week, possibly right into the coming weekend. Frankly, we could use some good dry flying weather to end this not so great flying season. Our flying area does not need any more rain thank you.