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For new AdAmAn member, New Year’s Eve tradition on Pikes Peak runs deep
McReynolds “Mac” Sommers is proud to be this year’s new member of Colorado Springs’ storied, Pikes Peak-climbing AdAmAn Club. But there might be someone even more proud. It might be his 97-year-old grandmother, Elaine Sommers, the widow of the member selected in 1963 and the mother of the member added in 1988. Elaine Sommers was…
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For new AdAmAn member, New Year’s Eve tradition on Pikes Peak runs deep
McReynolds “Mac” Sommers is proud to be this year’s new member of Colorado Springs’ storied, Pikes Peak-climbing AdAmAn Club. But there might be someone even more proud. It might be his 97-year-old grandmother, Elaine Sommers, the widow of the member selected in 1963 and the mother of the member added in 1988. Elaine Sommers was…
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For new AdAmAn member, New Year’s Eve tradition on Pikes Peak runs deep
McReynolds “Mac” Sommers is proud to be this year’s new member of Colorado Springs’ storied, Pikes Peak-climbing AdAmAn Club. But there might be someone even more proud. It might be his 97-year-old grandmother, Elaine Sommers, the widow of the member selected in 1963 and the mother of the member added in 1988. Elaine Sommers was…
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Remembering Luke: New Year’s Eve fireworks on Pikes Peak honor AdAmAn’s first posthumous member
He was a boy set on his father’s adventures, 8 years old and eager to tag along for a steep, rugged, off-trail trek to lakes high in Colorado’s wilderness. “A brutal hike, huge,” Lance Stark recalls. He tried explaining this to little Luke. This was no hike for him. “But he wanted to go,” Lance…
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Remembering Luke: New Year’s Eve fireworks on Pikes Peak honor AdAmAn’s first posthumous member
He was a boy set on his father’s adventures, 8 years old and eager to tag along for a steep, rugged, off-trail trek to lakes high in Colorado’s wilderness. “A brutal hike, huge,” Lance Stark recalls. He tried explaining this to little Luke. This was no hike for him. “But he wanted to go,” Lance…
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Remembering Luke: New Year’s Eve fireworks on Pikes Peak will honor AdAmAn’s first posthumous member
He was a boy set on his father’s adventures, 8 years old and eager to tag along for a steep, rugged, off-trail trek to lakes high in Colorado’s wilderness. “A brutal hike, huge,” Lance Stark recalls. He tried explaining this to little Luke. This was no hike for him. “But he wanted to go,” Lance…
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Monument man is new AdAmAn Club member, joining tradition of New Year’s Eve fireworks on Pikes Peak
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Britt Jones faced a dilemma. “My problem right now is twofold,” the Monument man said. One: A surgery is scheduled for January to repair a meniscus he evidently retore hiking another 14,000-foot mountain, Quandary Peak. As the new member of the AdAmAn Club — the annual selection is a tradition spanning 100 years — Jones,…
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New Year’s Eve fireworks on Pikes Peak come on AdAmAn Club’s 100th trek up the mountain
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The weather conditions at the summit of Pikes Peak are expected to be dismal on New Year’s Eve, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures are expected to approach -8 degrees, with moderate snow up to 2.8 inches with winds reaching 25 mph. None of this matters to the 34 men and women of the…
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Tracing 100 years of Barr Trail history and the man who helped make Pikes Peak a destination
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Pikes Peak’s most extraordinary trail was born 100 years ago. To thank for it is “in many respects an ordinary man.” That is how historian and author Eric Swab refers to Barr Trail’s visionary in the book “Fred Barr: Pikes Peak Entrepreneur.” Fred Barr “was…
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Tracing 100 years of Barr Trail history and the man who helped make Pikes Peak a destination
Pikes Peak’s most extraordinary trail was born 100 years ago. To thank for it is “in many respects an ordinary man.” That is how historian and author Eric Swab refers to Barr Trail’s visionary in the book “Fred Barr: Pikes Peak Entrepreneur.” Fred Barr “was a slow, good man whose life had to be in…