(COLORADO SPRINGS) — On Monday, Dec. 30, the AdAmAn Club started its 103rd climb to the top of Pikes Peak, and 2024 will see a slight break with tradition this year, as two members are being added to the climb.
Since 1922, the AdAmAn Club has trekked up to the summit of Pikes Peak to launch fireworks celebrating the new year. Every year, the group adds a new member to the climb, hence the name “add a man.”
This year, the tradition is being slightly altered as AdAmAn is adding two members to the climb, Luke Stark and Rachael Stark. Luke is being added posthumously–he had climbed with the club seven times and was going to follow his father Lance in membership when he passed away in a car crash in June.
Courtesy: The AdAmAn Club
Courtesy: The AdAmAn Club
The club decided to honor Luke with a posthumous membership and chose his sister, Rachael as 2024’s climbing member. Rachael has climbed with the group as a guest three times and has climbed 50 of Colorado’s fourteeners, according to the AdAmAn Club.
At about 4:15 p.m. on Monday, the Club reached Barr Camp, where they will spend the night before heading to the summit on Tuesday, Dec. 31. At midnight on New Year’s Eve, the group will set off a fireworks display that the club said on a clear night can be seen for miles.
