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Approaching 100 years the AdAmAn Club is ready to hike Pikes Peak once again COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The final touches are now in place for the 99th annual climb to the top of Pikes Peak for the elite team that lights the traditional New Year's Eve fireworks seen from across Colorado Springs. Since 1922, the AdAmAn Club has made its annual winter trek to the summit of Pikes Peak to fire a midnight blast of fireworks to help the region ring in the new year. The club started when Fred Barr and four of his adventurous friends made a New Year’s eve trek to the summit sponsored by the ...

Morrison didn’t know Morland when she became mayor but quickly came to like him. “He was there at council meetings faithfully,” she said. “He was hard-working, and I knew if council members had different points of view and I called on Mark, he would come up with something that we could all agree to.” Morland also possessed what Morrison called “a wonderful mind.” But he kept quiet about his physical problems. While Morland was on the City Council, clues that there might be something wrong began appearing, Morrison said. Morland sometimes would fall out of his chair, Morrison sai...

The AdAmAn Club sets off fireworks from the summit of Pikes Peak at midnight New Years Day, January 1, 2017. Gazette photographer Mark Reis shot this in-camera double exposure with a 600mm lens from the back porch of of his home. He photographed the waxing crescent moon setting over Pikes Peak earlier that night and then left the camera in place. He returned to the stationary camera at midnight to shoot the second exposure of fireworks lighting up the east face of the Peak. Photo by Mark Reis, The Gazette The Gazette file The Gazette file