Ready, set, snowshoe!

By Melanie Wong

VAIL — Bruce Kelly still remembers the first time he saw a snowshoe race. He was driving by Turquoise Lake in Leadville when he spotted a line of men running by in the snow. He stopped someone to ask what was going on, and they replied, “It’s a snowshoe race.” Intrigued, Kelly told his girlfriend (now wife) that he had a pair of snowshoes in the car, and he wanted to try it out. “She said, ‘Sure, how long do you think it will take you?’” remembered Kelly. “I said, ‘Oh, it’s a 10K, so probably 45 minutes to an …

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