Kirkby Lonsdale - May 2004
Starts wet - but turns into a scorcher..!!

Nobody could have dreamed of flying this weekend - not with the weather that was forecast. But, in the end, it turned into a cracker and most people got at least two flights, and some four.

One pilot disappeared over the horizon heading for the hills and, although we didn't expect to see him again - ever - he came back with stories of stand up landings and ending up next to a brewery!

Another tested the structural integrity of the local rustic masonry and found it not to be wanting.

The town of Kirkby Lonsdale next to the River Lune - take-off site lower right - from the Rugby Club

Snowman over K Lonsdale

Spectacular limestone country and moorland made for a memorable flight.

Fort Vale and Snowman landed at White Scar Caves under the flank of Ingleborough

Photos taken from the basket of the Fort Vale Engineering balloon by John H - pilot Dave Smith