Tips for Camping Out at Balloon Fiesta
Scott Hughes and his wife, Lynn Gurnee, have hauled their Keystone Springdale travel trailer from Wyoming to Albuquerque for Balloon Fiesta every year since 2017. “It’s a way for us to see the…
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Meet This Legendary Balloon Pilot
JIM AHERN’S BALLOONING CAREER was peaking right as things were starting to take off. “I was in the airline business before ballooning,” Ahern recalls. “Back in 1978, ballooning was just a hobby.” At…
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Balloon Fiesta Takes You Up, Up, and Away
AT 5 A.M., DARKNESS HANGS LIKE A CURTAIN over Albuquerque’s Balloon Fiesta Park, hiding the riot of colors, shapes, and sounds about to be unveiled in the morning light. For now, you and the thousands…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Lift off for Balloon Fiesta. Rainbow-colored hot-air balloons take to the skies over the Duke City beginning this weekend for the 50 th Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. The fiesta, held…
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Balloon Pilot Reaches New Heights
RAY BAIR FOLLOWED WHAT HE CALLS a “natural sequence of steps” into ballooning—from spectator to crewman to balloon owner to pilot. In 1973, Bair and his wife, Carol, attended the very first World Hot…
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Datebook: October 2022
PEGGY KING UNDERSTANDS THE IMPORTANCE of the Día de los Muertos celebration and its return to the Mesilla Plaza after a two-year hiatus. An event coordinator at the Calavera Coalition, which oversees…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Above: The Las Cruces Museum of Art unveils seven new La Catrina sculptures by Mexico-born artist Ricardo Soltero. Photograph courtesy of the Las Cruces Museum of Art. Celebrate skeleton season. Just…
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Photo Tips for the Balloon Fiesta
WHILE NOTHING LIFTS THE SPIRIT QUITE like the colorful balloon-filled skies of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta’s mass ascension, we’re here for all of it: the balloon rodeos, dawn…
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Meet the Female Pilots of Hot-Air Ballooning
Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds by Haley Greenfeather English celebrates these women with wings. Photograph courtesy of the Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum. IT BEGAN…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
Hotel Chaco's Level 5 rooftop patio in Albuquerque is serving breakfast and beautiful views of the balloons on this final weekend of Balloon Fiesta. Photograph courtesy of Hotel Chaco. Raise your eyes…
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