The South’s oldest balloon event and the United States’ only long distance hot air balloon race will begin\u00a0this Thursday (weather permitting) with a mass ascension of approximately 30 bright and colorful hot air balloons, in North Georgia’s Alpine Village – Helen.<\/p>\n
Race competitors and local flyers will take to the sky at 7:00 am, Thursday, June 5, 2014.<\/p>\n
If the weather conditions are too windy or storms are forecast, the take off will be postponed until conditions are acceptable.<\/p>\n
While the competition to the Atlantic continues, other balloonist compete in local events beginning Thursday evening around 6:00 pm.<\/p>\n
Local flying events will take place also on Friday and Saturday. The balloons will fly around 7:30am & 6pm each day (weather permitting).<\/p>\n
The balloons will only fly for around 1-2 hours. There will be many opportunities available to the public; assisting with the inflations, being a part of a chase crew, taking a tethered ride in a balloon or a champagne flight over the mountains.<\/p>\n
Thursday, June 5, 2014 – 7:00am<\/span>\u00a0–\u00a0<\/span>Saturday, June 7, 2014 – 7:00pm<\/span><\/p>\n For more information contact Balloon Headquarters: Helendorf Inn, 706-878-2271<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The South’s oldest balloon event and the United States’ only long distance hot air balloon race will begin\u00a0this Thursday (weather permitting) with a mass ascension of approximately 30 bright and colorful hot air balloons, in North Georgia’s Alpine Village – Helen. Race competitors and local flyers will take to the sky at 7:00 am, Thursday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1402,1404,97,1403,1405,1406,36],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-competitons","tag-alpine-village","tag-atlantic","tag-georgia","tag-helen","tag-helendorf-hotel","tag-tarp-head","tag-usa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RIC2-x5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/balloonteam.net\/montgolfier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}