Fireworks Tradition Continues Atop Pikes Peak To Ring In 2015
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- The AdAmAn Club is once again hiking to the top of Pikes Peak as part of the New Year's Eve tradition to light off fireworks from the summit.
The Pikes Peak AdAmAn Club has been climbing the 14,115-foot peak near Colorado Springs to ring in the new year since 1922. They also set off fireworks at the stroke of midnight.
The group's 93rd attempt began Tuesday morning when they started from the Barr Trailhead. This year's group consists of 25 club members and about a dozen guests.
Five fireworks will be lit off about 9 p.m. Wednesday, but the main event is reserved for midnight, when AdAmAn puts on a full-fledged New Year's display courtesy of a trailer full of pyrotechnics hauled to the summit in advance via the Pikes Peak Highway.
The tradition began in 1922 with Barr Trail and Barr Camp namesake Fred Barr and four friends - now remembered as the Frozen Five.
According to the website, "At the stroke of midnight, they lit their flares and the other fireworks they had hauled up the mountain, and built a huge bonfire of old railroad ties."
LINK: Pikes Peak AdAmAn Club
