Tracing 100 years of Barr Trail history and the man who helped make Pikes Peak a destination gazette.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from gazette.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dean Abel, 39, from Woodland Park, pushes up the start of Barr Trail during the Barr Trail Mountain Race in Manitou Springs on Sunday, July 19, 2021. Abel finished in 6th place with a time of 1:45:51. Racers embarked on the 12.6-mile course, with an elevation gain of 3.630 feet, ascending to Pikes Peak’s Barr Camp at 10,200 feet, then descending to the finishing at the Barr Trailhead.(Chancey Bush/ The Gazette)
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After spending much of 2020 closed during the coronavirus pandemic, Pikes Peak s famous waystation is accepting overnight reservations for the summer ahead.
A group of AdAmAn members pose holding pies. “Adaman Club December 31, 1927” is printed on the bottom of the photo. “The Pikes Peak AdAmAn Club has been a Pikes Peak Region tradition since 1922,” the group’s website states. “It is a unique group of mountaineers, who each year on December 30th and 31st, climb the icy slopes of Barr Trail on the east face of world famous Pikes Peak. Then, at the stroke of midnight on New Year’s Eve, AdAmAn members and their guests ignite a glorious fireworks display from the summit to usher in the New Year.”
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