by Troy Lesan
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“An experience I would highly recommend,” Carl Carder commented after he and his wife Sherri went for a ride over Lake Viking on the RE/MAX hot air balloon on June 18. The Carders had won the balloon ride in a drawing at a fund-raiser for the Gallatin Senior Center held earlier this year at the Lake Viking Clubhouse.
Hot air balloons are not exactly a precise science and are totally at the mercy of the wind currents. At first, takeoff was to be from a farm just west of the highway maintenance barn on Highway 6, but after continuously checking the wind directions aloft, RE/MAX balloon technician Joel Sturdivant decided to move the launch about three miles to the east and one mile further north. The result was “perfection.” The balloon rose to a top altitude of 1,000 feet and the winds carried it directly over the Lake Viking ship and clubhouse and across the water for a perfect landing at the Lake Viking air strip.