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AdAmAn Club set to light off fireworks on Pikes Peak to celebrate 2009
AdAmAns Club
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One of our areas most unique events is The AdAmAns Club annual trek up Pikes Peak to ring in the New Year. This year is no exception.
It all started in 1922. In December of that year, five Colorado Springs men decided that they didn’t want to attend anymore boring parties or dances to ring in the new year. They decided to do something never done before…climb Pikes Peak in the dead of winter!
The group consisted of five men, Fred and Ed Morath, Fred Barr, Willis Magee and Harry Standley. Fred and Ed were brothers who came up with this hare-brained idea. Fred Barr had just completed his trail from Manitou to the summit of the peak. He worked in the coal mines in the winter to gather the funds needed to build his trail. Harry Standley Was the photographer in the group who took many pictures of Cripple Creek during its heyday and also photographed all of Colorado’s 14,000 foot peaks. He not only photographed them, but climbed them as well. Willis was a banker but he was one that loved to take risks.
The weather was terrible that New Years Eve, but they were a determined bunch of friends. There really wasn’t much in the way of cold-weather gear back then. Read the rest of this entry »
5 Unique Colorado New Year’s Eve Events
New Years Eve Events – 2008/2009
As Christmas has now passed, it’s time to start making your plans for Celebrating New Year’s Eve. I 
wrote a blog post earlier in the week about some of my favorites restaurants in the Colorado Springs Area to celebrate New Years Eve; but there are also some great things to do within an short drive from Colorado Springs.
(1) Royal Gorge Railway
Description: Train Departs at 9:30 pm and returns at 12:30 am, train ride, dinner, entertainment, and champagne toast.
- Address Canon City, CO
- Phone: 719.276.4000
- Web Site www.royalgorge.com
(2) Hot Springs Pool
