During the first full weekend in March, Winthrop’s Morning Glory Balloon Tours hosts a Balloon Roundup and hot air balloons from all over the Pacific Northwest show up and launch (weather permitting) next to the river three mornings in a row. It’s a fun event and certainly one that all photographers love. Colorful balloons, blue skies, snow-covered mountains – what else could you want?
Getting started
The basket
Waiting for the air
Testing the flame
How does it look in there?
Holding on
Rising off the ground
Almost vertical
And there goes the first one – our local balloon from Morning Glory Balloon Tours
A flock of geese goes by
I like the moment when they go from horizontal to vertical
What’s not to like about this?
Almost full
This one is not round
Up, up and away …..
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