Adirondack Balloon Flights Blog

We flew a couple from Edmonton Alberta on Wednesday morning. We definitely have our HHH flying conditions back that we had in July. Dave and Mallory are on an extensive driving tour of the northeast that started in Toronto.

Dave and Mallory

The flying weather should be ok for Friday morning, before Hurricane Earl’s weather starts to affect our flying conditions. Saturday looks out for flying as well as most, if not all of Sunday. The flying weather should be good for Monday into Wednesday of the new week.

We had a very busy weekend with the great flying weather over the weekend. Taking a short  R&R break until Tuesday, when we will be flying again as the good flying conditions look to continue through at least Wednesday or Thursday. Currently, the early look at the coming Labor Day holiday weekend looks to be more fall like with some flying opportunities after a frontal passage sometime either late Thursday or on Friday. Depending on how close and when tropical system Earl moves up the east coast and out to sea, will have a factor on our flying conditions for late in the week and into the early part of the holiday weekend.

On Friday morning's flight is Sharon, Donny, Dawn & Nancy

We passed on flying Friday PM due to lack of wind that would have made for a boring ride for our passengers.

On Saturday morning we flew Dana, Matthew, Taylor, & Max plus Brigette & Mindi

On Saturday evening we flew a private group with a request for no pictures to be posted for public view. We are here serve our customers and honor their wishes.

On Sunday morning, we flew Corey, Michele, Tamara & Nathan.

We took a break on Sunday evening and Monday from flying after the weekend’s busy flying schedule to get ready for our week going into the Labor Day holiday weekend, summer’s last hurrah.

Well, it wasn’t the best weekend, or week, for flying. While we did manage a couple of flights during the week, we only flew on Saturday morning over the weekend. We canceled the Saturday afternoon flight when we met the passengers at the pick-up because of the weather conditions, which were unfortunately in a deterioration mode with heavy rain on the way, which is what we are now experiencing. According to the public forecast, the weather will not start to improve until Tuesday, which if we get the amount of rain they are forecasting, 2-5 inches in the flight area, we may not resume our flights until Wednesday or Thursday to give the flight area time to dry out. But, at least the majority of the week looks to be dry after Monday, except for a frontal passage overnight on Wednesday.

Our Saturday AM passengers from Virginia Beach VA, Bill, Ian and Virginia.

On Wednesday morning, we flew a group of friends from Potsdam NY and Meriden CT.

Kim, Ed and Terry

On Thursday morning, I had a couple come all the way from Ballerup Demnark to fly with us, and during the flight, Kenneth proposed to Heidi.

The Proposal!

The Acceptance. Congratulations!!

The balloon ride flying weather is looking good for Friday and Saturday, and most likely early on Sunday. After that, rain will be coming in sometime late on Sunday into Monday. The flying weather should improve on Tuesday.

On Friday evening, we flew a couple from Elkton, MD

Connie & Jack

On Saturday morning, we flew a couple from Zionsville, PA

Will and Ann

On Saturday evening, we flew 3 couples from the Albany area in our big Peacock VII hot air balloon.

Ray & Pam, Bruce & Linda, Epifanio & Beth Anne

The balloon flying weather for the week is coming into focus. The weather looks good for Tuesday and Wednesday, and probably early Thursday and Friday, into early Saturday. After that, our weather looks unsettled for the balance of the weekend into early next week. I am hopeful that the unsettled weather will hold off until later in the weekend. Check back later as we update the flying weather closer to the coming weekend.

We had some good flying weather this weekend, but it’s looking like it will come to an end. It’s not very promising for the afternoon today or Monday. The weather also looks to be challenging for the most part this week. We will update the weather early in the week as we see how things appear to be working out for doing some flying.

The flying started on Friday morning with Tom and Cynthia from Scotia

Next up on Saturday morning was Shannon & Ashley from Schenectady, Jeff & Carmen from E. Stroudsburg, Brian & Carol from Rego Park

On the Saturday PM flight we had Jake & Allison from Blue Point, Ellen & Chris from S. Setauket

On Sunday morning, we had Adrian & Brian from Astoria, Mary Ellen & Mara from Clifton Park, John & Chris from NYC

The morning worked out to be a fine morning for flying. We had a couple up from Scotia who are doing a weekend up in the Lake George area.

Tom & Cynthia

The flying weather looks great for this weekend. We are expecting lots of sun, cool temps and low humidity, and a possibility of going 4/4 on flights, and plus, maybe even good flying for the Monday AM flight.

Tuesday was a pretty day for a flight. We had some area folks up, from Diamond Point and Albany. The forecast was for light winds out of the south at around 4 kts, but we found the trip to be a bit quicker as the winds were brisk, made for an entertaining flight and landing.

Art & Patti, Sara & Ken

The forecast is looking pretty good for Friday and the weekend, plus the early coming week. We have a number of flights available for passengers, so give us a call if you would like to experience one of our hot air balloon flight adventures.