1. Yosemite Falls Trail No trip to Yosemite is quite complete without a visit to Yosemite Falls Trail. This 7.2 mile round trip trail takes you to the top of North America’s tallest waterfall. This hike takes many people between 6 to 8 hours total, on a trail that gains nearly 3,000 feet in elevation. Along the way, you’ll see […]

This is a new section of our site. Here you will find the pilots comments about each flight during the 2008 season.  Flying hot air balloons in Northern California’s Gold Country is not the same thing as flying hot air balloons in Napa Valley.  We hope this section provides people with a combination of amusement […]

Over Labor Day Weekend, Sky Drifters was pleased to be one of 12 balloons supporting the Children’s Hospital of Southern California at the Color the Skies balloon festival in Ripon, California. For those of you that aren’t sure where Ripon is, it’s off the 99 about halfway between Manteca and Modesto. Next year we’ll try […]

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