As a child, I had a favorite escapist fantasy: passing a winter holed up in a rustic, high-country cabin. In this dream I smiled a lot, at peace in my solitude, warmed inside and out by a winking wood ...

Make DIY snowshoes with diagrams and leather snowshoe binding instructions for constructing and lacing wood snowshoe frames. High-tech, mass-produced snowshoes are available from just about any ...

Old-style snowshoes are still being made and vintage models can be purchased at garage sales, thrift stores, antique stores and off the Internet. A Canadian company makes a crampon that can be added ...

Snowshoes have long helped travelers move through the deep powder, but modern snowshoers have a variety of needs and uses. You won’t see too many people on the trails with 6-foot-long wooden-framed, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The origins of mountain snowshoes can be traced back to the 1940s and 1950s, when small, maneuverable wooden frames were developed in the ...