At 7am, fans begin to blow, pilots begin to fire their burners and slowly, very slowly, balloons lift off. At low elevations the winds tend to be southerly, but at higher elevations they tend to be northerly. Balloonists use these winds to navigate in a vertical box: they ascend slightly from the launch park, move south, ascend further, move north, descend, and repeat the box or land back in the launch park or quite nearby. This is referred to as 'The Albuquerque Box.'
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