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Snowshoes
This article is about snow shoes. For the resort, Snowshoe Mountain view. For the hare, see the hare. For other uses, see Snowshoe (disambiguation).

Snowshoes, sometimes colloquially referred to as webs, are footwear for walking in the snow. Snowshoes work by distributing the person's weight over a larger area so that the person's feet do not sink completely into the snow, a quality called "flotation".

<A rel = "nofollow" onclick = "javascript: pageTracker._trackPageview ('/ outgoing / article_exit_link');" href = " http://www.himfr.com/buy-charmed_top/ "> glad </ a> Traditional snowshoes have a wooden frame with rawhide laces. Some modern snowshoes are similar, but most are made of light metal while others are a single piece of plastic attached to the foot to distribute the weight. In addition to distributing the weight, snowshoes are generally raised at the toe for maneuverability. They must not accumulate snow, hence the latticework, and require bindings to attach them to the feet. If today they are mainly used for recreational purposes, primarily by hikers and riders who wish to pursue their passion in winter, in the past they were essential tools for fur traders, trappers and anyone whose life or life depended on the ability to move in areas of deep and frequent snowfall. Even today, snowshoes are necessary equipment for forest rangers and others who should be able to move in areas inaccessible to motorized vehicles when the snow is deep.

Before humanity built snowshoes, nature provided examples. Many animals, including snowshoe hare, has evolved over the years with oversized feet enabling them to move more quickly in deep snow.

The origin and age of snowshoes are not precisely known, although historians believe they were invented from 4,000 to 6,000 years, probably from Central Asia. [Edit] British archaeologist Jacqui Wood suggested that the equipment performed as part of a backpack the Chalcolithic mummy a–tzi actually part of a racket. [1] Strabo wrote that the inhabitants of the Caucasus used to attach flat surfaces of leather on their feet and that the Armenians used all wooden surfaces, something that looks like blocks in place. However, the "traditional" webbed snowshoe as we know it today has roots direct northern First Nations, for example, the Huron, Cree, and so on. Samuel de Champlain wrote, indicating the Huron and Algonquin First Nations, in his memoirs Travel (V. III, pg. 164), "Winter, when there is lots of snow, they (the Indians) to a kind of racket that are two to three times larger than those in France, they attach to their feet, and then go on snow without sinking, or they would not be able to hunt or spend a place to another. "

Two groups of snowshoe pioneers diverged early on, the models that are still visible today. One group abandoned the snowshoe as it migrated north to what is now Scandinavia, eventually turning the design into the forerunners of Nordic skiing. The other went northeast, eventually crossing the Bering Strait into North America.

Here, their descendants developed the most advanced rackets and diversified before European exploration and colonization. Nearly every Native American tribe developed its own form of the shoe, the simplest and most primitive being those of the far north. The Inuit have two styles, one being triangular in shape and about 18 inches (45 cm) long, and the other almost circular, both reflecting the need for high flotation in deep powder snow and powder . However, contrary to popular perception, the Inuit have not used them.