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Carl Heilman, one of the Adirondack’s most famous photographers, has a good snowshoe reference. The web site consists of ten pages corresponding to 10 slides of a presentation. Snowshoe types including: aerobic or fitness, recreational, mountaineering Snowshoe styles Snowshoe performance factors: traction, hinge design, bindings Snowshoe tips and techniques The slides present a framework but [...] Colin Fletcher said, “Snowshoes allow you to travel (sweating hard, but sinking less than a foot at every step) across snow into which you would otherwise go on sinking forever if God had not arranged that human legs eventually converge.” From: The Complete Walker IV. Snowshoes date to the shoe ski created in Central Asia [...] A study entitled “Risk assessment in winter backcountry travel” appearing in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, 2009 Fall, concluded snowshoers and snowmobilers are groups that tend to underestimate avalanche danger when traveling in the back country. These groups may be unknowingly assuming a higher risk and should be targeted for avalanche education and awareness. The purpose [...] The Adirondack Mountain Club (ADK) will host a Family Snowshoe Day on Saturday, Feb. 12. Participants will spend the day snowshoeing on the trails of ADK’s Heart Lake Property, Lake Placid. The club will provide snowshoes and instruction for a guided hike around their property, as well as sharing bits of natural history including animal [...] God forbidden one fall down in the snow, unable to get up and have to wait for rescue. If that is the case it is best to be attired in bright clothing. Follow our occasional Tweets @WinterCampers |
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