After cross-country skiing, snowshoeing was my favourite winter activity when we lived in the valley. It's such a neat way to walk in deeper snow. If nothing else it keeps the snow away from the top of your boots. It also leaves a really neat track behind you.
On this occasion I was using my traditional 40-year old 'Huron' snowshoes, large and wide with a tail at the back. I bought these on our way to a trip in Algonquin Park, where we snowshoed in loose fluffy snow 4 feet deep! We still sank in a foot even with these. As you can see, the harness has been replaced, at least twice I think.
It was a glorious day in the woods, probably not deep enough to really require these large snowshoes, but deep enough to have fun using them.
It was a couple of days since a nice snowfall, so there was at least 6-8 inches of fresh powder.
It makes fascinating patterns clinging to the branches.
And it was definitely clinging to those branches!
I have used snowshoes like that, but the ones we bought weren't that type. I loved it when I could do it. Aren't we a pair?
ReplyDeleteThis is very alien to me here in Georgia! I would love to try walking in a pair of snowshoes. They dp leave interesting tracks.
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