Puzzle Description:

Happy New Year! As I type this a group of hardy individuals, known as The AdAmAn Club (add a man), is making its way up Barr Trail to the 14,110 ft. summit of Pikes Peak. Tomorrow, December 31st, they'll reach the summit and set up for the 88th annual fireworks display that rings in the New Year for the Pikes Peak Region. While we're all warm in our homes down here in the city, the AdAmAn Club will be setting up the fireworks in a wind chill of 32 to 45 degrees below zero. Brrrrrr..... Happy New Year to all of my friends in Web Paint-by-Number Land! I wish you all peace, prosperity and happiness in 2011.

#1: Linda Martin (ilovethispuzzle123) on Dec 30, 2010

An interesting note: Honorary members of the AdAmAn Club included Roald Amundsen (leader of the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole) and Sir Edmund Hillary (who along with Tenzing Norgay, was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest). Another interesting note: In the 1920's, my grandfather (who was not a member of the AdAmAn Club), decided to beat them to the top. He hiked for hours in the freezing snow and actually did beat them there. When they reached the summit, they found my grandfather half frozen in the caretaker's cottage. They quickly lit a fire to thaw him out, gave him some food and drink to bring him around and admonished him never to do anything that foolish again! Here's the AdAmAn Club's website: http://www.adaman.org/Home.aspx

great fireworks
crazy people
haha

:-D thanks, bugaboo

Beautiful Linda - Happy New Year to you and your family and everyone else here in Web PBN Land! I really enjoyed reading about adaman.

thank you, susan! happy new year to you and thank you so much for solving my puzzles and commenting on them. the people in my head are starting to buzz again, so i think i'll be reporting about them very soon...

Linda, nice fireworks and lovely sentiment. The best of 2011 to you and yours also. And congrats to your grandfather! Strong spirit ... glad they got to him in time to thaw him out!!! :o)

thank you so much, mrsthing. hope today finds you and your family in good health and spirits. i'm glad my grandfather thawed out, too...:-)

Wow - what a fun puzzle! Beautiful image and interesting story. I did a mountain hike in freezing weather... once. Never again. Give me a good book, a cup of cocoa and a blanket in a chair next to the fireplace any day. :-)

Linda, how old was your grandfather when he took on this great adventure? I wonder if he thought at the time, "This will be a great story to tell my grandchildren."

hi teresa! thank you very much for the comment :-) i'll take the fireplace over the freeze any day! my grandfather was in his 20's when he hiked up pikes peak on new year's eve. he was also an olympic contender (mile run, belgium olympics) and he often hiked up the peak for training. guess what? this is the first time since the advent of the adaman club that the group wasn't able to make it to the summit. way too cold, brutal winds, and frostbite. no fireworks this year :-( oh, well - better luck next time!

Nice puzzle and story, thanks.

thank you so much, julia!

Lovely image and sentiment. Thanks so much!

thank you so much, dianne :-)

Lovely! I'm just worrying a little about what happened to Her on her first paparazzi outing. I hope they're starting to buzz pretty loudly in your head, since it looks like it's been half a year since they made it into a puzzle! I have enjoyed your puzzles about other things, but I miss Him and Her. :)

I miss them too.

Sniff Sniff. :-(

Hint Hint. :-)

Beautiful fireworks, and an even better story!

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