Members and guests of the Pikes Peak AdAmAn Club
lit up the summit of 14,110 foot Pikes Peak
with a brilliant fireworks display at midnight
on December 31, 2004.
Under clear skies and high winds, our climbing
party of 16 members and 14 guests, braved wind
chills of –45 degrees to ignite 60 bombs
and 40 flares. The east face of Pikes Peak was
brightly illuminated and we had reports that
our show was seen from Denver to Pueblo.
During our 2-day climb, AdAmAn’s newest
member, Cindy Bowles of Colorado Springs, had
the hard task of breaking trail over the 13.2
mile Barr Trail. At the end of the first day,
our overnight stay at Barr Camp (elevation 10,200
feet) gave the climbing party a chance to get
a hot meal and a good night’s sleep.
Our second day’s climb included the tradition
of mirror flashing at the Timberline shelter,
and we were pleased to report hundreds of return
mirror flashes from all over the Colorado Springs
area. Fierce winds and icy conditions prevailed
over the final 3 miles of the climb, from timberline
at 12,000 feet to the Summit.
Our thanks to the residents of the Pikes Peak
Region for your continued support of the Pikes
Peak AdAmAn Club. It was again a pleasure to
help welcome the New Year from the summit of
America’s Mountain, an AdAmAn tradition
since 1922!
