'Snowshoes' Post Category

Snowshoeing is a lot of fun, but depending on what kind of snowshoeing you plan on doing, the kind of snowshoes you get will vary a lot. Choosing snowshoes, then, starts with deciding on what you want to do with those snowshoes. Running will requi...

With a lot of backpacking and hiking gear you have a lot of different choices when it comes to the material that your equipment is made out of. But with snowshoes, there aren’t too many choices. There are a few plastic snowshoes out there, but mos...

One of the great things about snowshoes is that they tend to be fairly uniform in size, when it comes to the size of your foot, anyway. Even people with especially wide feet should have little trouble finding a pair of snowshoes that fits their ex...

When you head in to the backcountry there is a certain kind of snowshoe that will perform well, and a few other kinds of snowshoes that you probably want to avoid taking, because they will decrease your level of enjoyment, and maybe even cause a f...

If you’ve never done much research in to snowshoes you might think that all snowshoes are alike, that maybe there are men’s snowshoes and women’s snowshoes, and that’s about it. But there are in fact several types of snowshoes, each with certain s...

Snowshoes are a lot of fun, but if you’ve never done much research in to actually buying snowshoes, then there are a few things you should know. For instance, there are some differences between snowshoes for men and women. Snowshoes are fairly uni...

If you’re the kind of person that just cant bring themselves to go running on a treadmill, but you also live somewhere that experiences more than a token amount of snow, then what you need is snowshoes for running. There are snowshoes designed wit...

Snowshoes are a lot of fun, but you may not be familiar enough with snowshoes to know what to look for when buying snowshoes. And there definitely are a few things that you need to be aware of when buying snowshoes. A good pair of snowshoes that a...

Races are a lot of fun, but most people tend to take the winter off, thinking that snow gets in the way of having a good time or of competing. But there are a couple of different ways to enjoy a race in the snow, and one of the more popular ways i...

Snowshoes can get rather expensive, especially if you’re looking for a pair that you can take off of the groomed trails and get a little more adventurous with. Snowshoeing is fun, after all, but part of the fun is taking them in to fresh, deep sno...