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— Photo by Russell Pokorny

Fair view: Russell Pokorny of Knox took this aerial view of the Altamont Fair on Friday afternoon at about 1:30 from his Cessna 150. From the sky, the concentric rings are clearly visible on the circus big top, where Marie McMillen said fairgoers flocked and were turned away to return another time. McMillen, the fair’s manager, said ticket accounting hasn’t yet been done to estimate how many people attended this year, but she believes it was more than the last year’s estimate of 50,000 paid attendees. The free-style motorcross show, Circus Hollywood, and the Disc-connected K9’s show were some of the most popular attractions, she said. “Every year, I put two more sets of bleachers there,” said McMillen of the Frisbee dog show. “It’s still just jammed with people.”