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A lone timber wolf greets
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Snowshoeing
[goes] back
six thousand years.
  --Osgood & Hurley
  The Snowshoe Book,
  1983

No snowflake
in an avalanche
ever
feels responsible.
  --Stanislaw Jerzy Lee
  1909-1966
  More Unkempt
    Thoughs, 1968

Climb
the mountains and
get their good tidings.
Nature's peace
will flow into you
like sunshine flows
into the trees.
The winds
will blow
their own freshness
into you
and the storms
their energy
while cares
will drop off
like autumn leaves.
--John Muir
1838-1914

The mountains
can be reached
in all seasons.
They offer
a fighting challenge
to heart,
soul
and mind,
both in summer
and winter.

If throughout time
the youth
of the nation
accept
the challenge
the mountains offer,
they will keep alive
in our people
the spirit of adventure.

That spirit
is a measure
of the vitality
of both nations
and men.

A people
who climb the ridges
and sleep
under the stars in
high mountain meadows,
who enter
the forest
and scale peaks,
who explore glaciers
and walk ridges
buried deep in snow--
these people
will give
their country
some of the
indomitable spirit
of the mountains.
--William O. Douglass
1898-1980

By Michael A. Neiger (aka: LandNavMan), Marquette, Michigan
Wilderness tripper: backpacking, winter camping, swift-water canoeing
Web site URL: http://therucksack.tripod.com • E-mail: mneiger@hotmail.com
Contents copyright © 1984-2007 by Michael A. Neiger • All rights reserved.

	Michael Neiger laces up his snowshoes for a deep-snow trek in the Agawa Canyon, Ontario, Canada (Photo by Dave Ide)
Snowshoeing A RuckSack primer on... Snow- shoeing resources By Michael A. Neiger Copyright 2001 Last updated on February 22, 2009



Contents of page Snowshoeing Links General Manufacturers Books Vendors Looking for wilderness tripping equipment and supplies? For 100's of sources for wilderness tripping equipment and supplies, visit the sources for gear page on this Web site. Need help finding a book? Trying to buy a new or used copy of a book, but can't locate one? Want to find a library somewhere in the country that will lend you the book at no cost? Then visit the handy book finder page on this Web site. Recommend a book, catalog, or Web site If you know of a useful outdoor-related book, catalog, or Web site not listed on this Web site, e-mail the book's title, subtitle, author, publisher, date of publication, and short description; or the catalog's address and phone number; or the Web site's URL to Michael Neiger at mneiger@hotmail.com. ** Recommended

Top Snowshoeing links General GORP--Adventure Travel http://www.gorp.com Select "activities" Snow Shoeing at Hiker Central http://www.hikercentral.com/snowshoe/ Snowshoe Central http://www.svidaho.com/snowshoeing/ Snowshoeing http://www.turninghome.com/Main/hobbies/snowshoeintro.htm Snowshoeing Base Camp http://www.areteoutdoors.com/channel/snow/snowshoeing/ Snowshoes and Snowshoeing http://www.carlheilman.com/snowshoe.html Winter Backpacker--Snowshoeing http://www.backpacking.net/winter.html Manufacturers Atlas Snowshoe Co. 1-888-482-8527 http://www.atlassnowshoe.com/ Baldas Snowshoes http://www.baldas.com/usa.htm Climb High 1-802-985-5056 http://www.climbhigh.com Crescent Moon Snowshoe Co. 1-800-587-7655 http://www.crescentmoonsnowshoes.com/ Dion Snowshoes http://www.dionsnowshoes.com Elfman Snowshoes 1-805-543-2822 http://www.poweredsports.com/snowshoes/ Faber Snowshoes http://www.fabersnowshoes.com/ Glacier Snowshoe Co. http://www.glaciersnowshoe.com/ Good Thunder Snowshoes 1-612-824-2385 http://www.goodthunder.com/ Great Bear Snowshoes http://shopworks.com/greatbear/ Grivel North America 1-801-463-7996 http://www.grivel.com GV Snowshoes http://www.gvsnowshoes.com Havlick's Snowshoe Co. 1-518-661-6447 http://www.havlicksnowshoe.com/ Iversons Snowshoe and Furniture, Inc. 1-906-452-6370 http://www.iversons-snowshoes.com Little Bear Snowshoes 1-970-241-0160 http://www.springbrook.com/snowshoe/ Maine Guide Snowshoes 1-866-672-4011 http://www.mgsnowshoes.com/ MSR (Mountain Safety Research) 1-800-877-9677 http://www.msrcorp.com/ Northern Lights Snowshoes 1-800-360-5483 http://www.northernlites.com Northwoods Wilderness Outfitters N-4088 Pine Mountain Road Iron Mountain, MI 49801 906 774-9009 1-800-530-8859 http://www.northwoodsoutfitters.com/ Powder Wings 1-800-453-1192 Prater Snowshoes http://www.adsnet.net/prater/ Ramer Products, LTD 1-303-499-4466 Redfeather Snow Shoes 1-800-525-0081 http://www.redfeather.com/ Romp Snowshoes 1-719-784-3292 Salomon http://www.salomonsports.com/us/salomon.html Schnee Schuh Profi http://www.schneeschuhprofi.com Sherpa Snowshoes 1-800-621-2277 http://www.sherpasnowshoes.com/ (No longer in business) TipToe Snowshoes http://www.tiptoesnowshoes.com/ TSL Snowshoes http://www.tslsportequipment.com Tubbs Snowshoes 1-800-882-2748 http://www.tubbssnowshoes.com/ Ursus Outdoor Equipment 1-604-254-4517 http://www.ursussnowshoes.com Verts Climbing Snowshoes http://www.verts.com/ Whitewoods USA http://www.eriksports.com Wilcox & Williams, Inc. 1-800-216-0710 http://www.snowshoe.com/ Yakima 1-888-925-0703 http://www.yakima.com/ Yowie Snowshoes http://www.yowies.com.au Yuba Snowshoe Co. 1-800-598-9822 http://www.yubashoes.com/ Yukon Charlies Snowshoes http://www.yukoncharlies.com/ Yupi Skishoes http://www.yupisnowshoes.com Top Snowshoeing books *Building Snowshoes, by Gil Gilpatrick (De Lorme Pub. Co., 1979) Canadian Snowshoe, by Thomas Drummond (J. Hope, 1916) Complete Winter Sports Safety Manual--Staying Safe and Warm While Snowshoeing, Skiing, Snowboarding, Snowmobiling, and Camping, by Bery Kreissman (Bear Claw Press, 1997) Crafting Techniques for Handsplit Snowshoes, by Carl Heilman (Carl Heilman, 1983) Cross-Country Skiing and Snowshoeing, by Erwin Bauer (Winchester, 1975) Essential Guide to Cross-Country Skiing and Snowshoeing in the United States, by Charles Cook (St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1997) Essential Snowshoer--A Step-by-Step Guide, by Marianne Zwosta (McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 1997) High Performance Snowshoeing, by Danelle Ballengee, Robb Reece, and Cody Reece (Danelle Ballengee, 1997) How to Make a Pair of Snowshoes, by T. H. Ingersoll (T. H. Ingersoll, 1985) Making It, a Guide to Cross-Country Skiing, Snowshoeing, and Winter Survival, by John Hitchcock (Harrowood Books, 1973) Making It: Winter Survival, by John Hitchcock and Charles Fox (Livingston, 1973) Making Snowshoes, by Kathleen Lynch (Anchorage Alaska Adult Literacy Laboratory, 1974) Making the Attikamek Snowshoe, by Henri Valliancourt (Trust for Native Cultures and Crafts, 1987) Skiing and Snowshoeing* (U.S. Army, 1957) Snowshoe Book, 3rd edition, by William Osgood and Leslie Hurley (The Stephen Greene Press, 1983) The Snowshoe Experience, by Claire Walter (Storey Publishing, 2004) Snowshoe Handbook, by Len McDougal (Burford Books, 2000) Snowshoe Making, by Henri Vaillancourt Snowshoer's Equipment Guide, by William Prater (Sierra Design Co., 1972) Snowshoes, by Daniel Davidson (American Philosophical Society, 1937) Snowshoeing, 4th edition, by Gene Prater (Mountaineers Books, 1997) *Snowshoeing, by Sally Edwards and Melissa McKenzie (Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc., 1995) Snowshoeing, by Steven A. Griffin (Stackpole, 1998) Snowshoeing--A Trailside Guide, by Larry Olmstead (W.W. Norton, 1997) Snowshoeing--Basic Essentials, by Phil Savignano (Globe Pequot, 2001) Snowshoeing for Everyone, by Anthony Carter (Carter, 1975) Walk Into Winter--A Complete Snowshoeing and Winter Camping Guide, by Gerry Wolfram (Scribner, 1977) White Earth Snowshoe Guidebook, by Tom Hollatz (North Star Press, 1975) Winter Touring--Cross-Country Skiing and Snowshoeing*, by Clayne Jensen (Burgess, 1977) Top Snowshoeing equipment vendors See Backpacking Equipment Vendors page

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