Crescent Moon wins contract to make snowshoes for Army National Guard

BOULDER — The temperature outside may be soaring past 90, but a handful of workers in Boulder are rushing to help soldiers slog through deep Colorado snow.

Crescent Moon Snowshoes, an 18-year-old business that operates out of about 2,500 square feet at 5401 Western Ave., Suite C, on the periphery of the Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. campus, has received an order for what president and co-founder Jake Thamm describes as “many hundreds” of snowshoes for the Colorado Army National Guard.

“We got the order on July Fourth weekend,” Thamm said. “As an all-American manufacturing company, I thought that was entirely appropriate.”

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