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How and where to make your own snowshoes
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Well, the classes start tomorrow (Tuesday 1 November) ... in the northern US state of Oregon (Sarett Nature Centre, Benton Harbour, to be exact!). This is what you'll learn:

How to put two pieces of 55-inch white ash (left), through a bending jig (second from left), and weave them with white nylon tubing. (Photo: Barbara Allison/South Bend Tribune)

Chuck Nelson, who's been teaching the art of making snowshoes for 25 years, will show you 'the ropes'. His authentic local snowshoes are distinctive, as the photo shows: Unlike the first American oval snowshoes, commonly known as the bear paw, and the teardrop shape of the Maine or Michigan snowshoe, the Ojibwa design has a tail, and a tip which rises up like a boat's bow through a wave.

"In the Midwest, you get melting and freezing conditions and the snow is awful," Chuck Nelson Nelson says. "There was nothing to keep the snowshoe from going under the ice and blam! You would be thrown to the ground."

This report from South Bend Tribune.

Maybe it's time for snowshoe-making classes in the UK.
Anyone tried snowshoeing? What kind of kit did you use - high-tech or traditional?
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