Author: By Seth Boster
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Inside the ‘fringe’ and ‘hearty’ world of snowshoe racing, with championships coming to Colorado
It was 2001, their second winter in Colorado. Not long removed from college in Michigan, endurance athlete Josiah Middaugh and his wife were down to $50. “We weren’t sure we were gonna be able to make it another winter,” he said. Then Middaugh heard about a race at nearby Beaver Creek — a very particular…
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Thousands of cranes set to descend upon Colorado in annual rite of spring
Every spring, thousands of big birds take to the big skies of a mountainous Colorado valley. And thousands of people follow. The Monte Vista Crane Festival, the state’s oldest birding festival, turns 37 next month. March 6-8, sandhill cranes will pose for onlookers, whose photo albums aren’t complete without the sight: The long-legged, wide-winged creatures…