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#241819 - 02/25/12 11:41 AM Cheap snowshoes.... Saturday only
Byrd_Huntr Offline
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There's been a lot of discussion about trying snowshoes lately. I found this ad in my email this morning. These are starter shoes, but with poles and a carry bag at $36 ($39.97 non-members) it's a givaway price from the Sportsmans Guide. This price is only good for today.

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/cb/cb.aspx?a=949901&ecid=f208f&em_id=kwcnorth%40hotmail.com&utm_source=internal&utm_medium=email-flash&utm_campaign=f208f

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#241850 - 02/25/12 10:43 PM Re: Cheap snowshoes.... Saturday only [Re: Byrd_Huntr]
TeacherRO Offline
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A good price. If you go in deep snow and brush - Fun!
Get ones large enough for your weight ( including gear!)

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#241932 - 02/27/12 03:17 PM Re: Cheap snowshoes.... Saturday only [Re: TeacherRO]
ILBob Offline
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Loc: Northern IL
there is a guy selling similar snowshoes on ebay for $49 shipped.
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#241949 - 02/27/12 06:09 PM Re: Cheap snowshoes.... Saturday only [Re: Byrd_Huntr]
TeacherRO Offline
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Snowshoes strike me as limited use tools - Perfect for a very specific, very limited use.

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#241983 - 02/28/12 06:52 AM Re: Cheap snowshoes.... Saturday only [Re: Byrd_Huntr]
CANOEDOGS Offline
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they are very limited but if you don't have them when you need them you could be in a real fix."stove pipeing" thru fresh deep snow to get back to the car,camp,help--whatever,would drain your energy fast.i do a fair amount of snow shoeing as a sport,a kind of winter hiking,and once you get the hang of it you can really move right along.i'm sort of down on some of the styles of modern shoes.they don't have a big enough foot print to really hold you up.my wife got a pair of the newer ones and even although she is smaller and light in weight she sinks in more that i do with my bulk on my older style wood frame ones.

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#241986 - 02/28/12 10:42 AM Re: Cheap snowshoes.... Saturday only [Re: CANOEDOGS]
Byrd_Huntr Offline
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Originally Posted By: CANOEDOGS
they are very limited but if you don't have them when you need them you could be in a real fix."stove pipeing" thru fresh deep snow to get back to the car,camp,help--whatever,would drain your energy fast.i do a fair amount of snow shoeing as a sport,a kind of winter hiking,and once you get the hang of it you can really move right along.i'm sort of down on some of the styles of modern shoes.they don't have a big enough foot print to really hold you up.my wife got a pair of the newer ones and even although she is smaller and light in weight she sinks in more than I do with my bulk on my older style wood frame ones.


My wife and I use aluminum shoes these days. Hers are smaller than mine, as she weighs less. I also have a pair of traditional rawhide laced shoes from my youth. They are works of art and still in pretty good shape, so I hung them on the wall. I will readily admit that the old shoes work well and have a nostalgic appeal, harking back to the days of Father Baraga and the fur trappers and natives of the Hudson Bay Co days.

The main drawback of aluminum shoes is that they are noisy on packed trails. In my opinion the ratchet bindings are far superior to anything you could use on ash/rawhide shoes, and they excel on ice because of the built-in crampons.

When I go late season hunting on packed logging roads up north, I take my wifes' smaller shoes and bungee them to the sides of my pack. They're so light I forget that they're there until I hit a trail that has heavy snow.

Canoedogs calls out the problem of 'postholing'.....any snowshoe beats postholing which saps energy at a dangerous rate.
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#241999 - 02/28/12 03:06 PM Re: Cheap snowshoes.... Saturday only [Re: TeacherRO]
Jolt Offline
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Registered: 11/15/10
Posts: 90
Loc: Maine
Originally Posted By: TeacherRO
Snowshoes strike me as limited use tools - Perfect for a very specific, very limited use.


Depends where you live...and snowshoeing is a nice winter activity in itself so you can get plenty of use out of them just for recreation.
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