0112 Mar 2026
The eleven minutes before the first burn
There is a stretch, somewhere above 900 feet, when nothing in the basket moves and the wind forgets to press. This is a letter about that.
Field journal
3 dispatches
Dispatches,
from above.
Written by pilots, rangers, reservations and the people who keep the basket in the air.
0222 Jan 2026
The eleven colors of the Mara dawn
A photographic sequence of the sky between 5:47am and 6:23am on a single July morning, with the hex codes the site is built from.
0320 Oct 2025
A pilot learns the wind
Every morning at 04:20 the senior pilots meet for thirty minutes of coffee and weather argument. This is a portrait of what we actually talk about.