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Hot air balloon landing

Submitted by Griff J Wigley on Sat, 01/07/2006 - 1:11pm.


Dave and Donna Ricks and family from Northfield got a ride in a hot air balloon this afternoon from their Burnsville friends. They departed from the Carleton Rec Center and I took photos and some video of their landing near the high school at around 4 pm. Click the photos above to enlarge and see over twenty more in the hot air balloon landing photo album.

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Click the play button on the two 20 second video clips. The left clip is slightly distorted because I had to rotate it. The balloon is not as squashed as it appears. The right clip shows them demonstrating how to jump-start a balloon if the battery goes dead.Dave Ricks is Carleton College's head men's track and field and assistant men’s cross-country coach. Donna Ricks is associate professor of physical education, athletics and recreation at Carleton as well as the head women's cross country and track and field coach.

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Submitted by Ross Currier (not verified) on Sun, 01/08/2006 - 5:33pm.

Hey Griff:

I found the juxtaposition of the blog entries on the NCO Board and the Hot Air to be somewhat confusing...

;-)

Ross

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Submitted by Bruce Morlan (not verified) on Mon, 01/09/2006 - 5:28am.

Hey hey hey! Most of the Board used up all their hot air at the retreat, but Griff, being a taciturn kind of guy (you may have noticed we can barely get him to blog anything) saved his to help the balloonists.

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