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Less than a week after our flight from Seeg to Rosenheim, we met at Eglofs (between Wangen and Isny) with some fellow balloonists, and it turned out that we had a similar wind situation as the Saturday before. And again, the race was on! :-) Within three hours and fourty minutes of flight, we made [...]
It is October, and many balloonists are talking about the end of the season. Well, not us, that’s for sure! :-D On Saturday, October 26th, weather was just perfect for a long distance flight along the Alps: Calm on the ground and speedy winds at altitude. So, we met at Seeg (near Füssen) with our [...]
With a nice ‘survivor’s dinner’ and awards ceremony on Friday evening, our fantastic week at Kirchberg finally came to an end. And we only missed the podium by a few points! :-) Back home now, we’re still dreaming about our wonderful flights… and the impressions from this awesome week will surely stay with us forever. [...]
No weather for flying? No problem! There are many other things to do at Kirchberg! :-) So, we did a nice little hiking tour up the Gaisberg, and as you can see on the photos, the views we had were no less magical than the ones we had the days before! Finally, we ended up [...]
Our ninth consecutive flight brought a bit of true adventure! As some kind of special competition, a hare and hounds was called out, and the hounds were allowed to hot inflate right after the hare had taken off. Luckily, we were quick enough and did just that, for right after our takeoff, the wind turned [...]
We’re slowly running out of superlatives to describe our magical flights here! This morning, we got up really early and met at the launch site at 6 o’clock for a sunrise flight. It’s hard to describe the atmospheric morning mood that awaited us at 2000 meters with no poet at hand… ;-) …and even the [...]
Our seventh flight at Kirchberg was no less amazing than the ones before! Expecting winds from south-westerly directions, we took off from Westendorf to do a fly in to Kirchberg again – soon discovering that winds were coming from north-west rather than south-west. They took us right over the Alpenrose, into the mountains… what to [...]
We didn’t really expect that we could top our flight from this morning, but with the same windspeed and direction prevailing, we just decided to do it again and cross the mountains from Söll to Kirchberg. This time, it was a free flight and we didn’t have to concentrate on competition, so we could really [...]
This morning, competition chief Thomas gave us the task to do a fly in from Söll, located in the next valley to the north, to Kirchberg. We didn’t score quite that good at the target, but as we had no retrieve, it was even more important for us to land somewhere near to where our [...]