Hot air balloon ride over Geneva

Filling up our balloon before launch


The other two took off before us


Gearing up to help


Getting ready to fire the burners


Almost ready to launch


What a view! Palais Wilson and the lakefront


Looking over to rive gauche and the Saleve and le Mole behind


Pont Mt. Blanc and the Fetes de Genève going down in the Jardin Anglais


Ile Jean-Jacques Rousseau


Cathedral St. Pierre


Parc des Bastions


Vielle ville


Plainpalais


The Arve river


Sun over the Jura mountains


Looking back to Geneva and Lac Léman


Rolex building at Plan les Ouates and the apartment complex where the Beutlers live


Colourful fields in France


The Saleve and farm land


Geneva's altitude is over 1200 ft, but St. Julien is higher still, so we were over 1,500 feet up in the air.


Patrick and Patrick searching for uncultivated fields to land in.


The mountains of Annecy in the distance


Saleve and farmland again


Pilot and copilot pose for a photo


Soaring over a forest


A mansion featured in some of the Tintin books


Approaching our landing spot


A couple walking with their dog stops to see us fly by


Began to lose altitude here; we landed in the field after the dark brown strip of land


After our bumpy landing. We drug along the ground about 100 metres


Patrick, Patrick, and my friend Tristan celebrate another successful flight


We begin to fold the envelope


Packing up the ballon