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Snowshoe Making

It's impossible to travel in the mountains during winter with-
out a good pair of snowshoes. They are made with hardwood
frames. Birch is the best wood. Tanned deer hide or moose skin is
used for the webbing. Frontiersmen set great store by a pair of well-
made snowshoes. They are hard to make and very valuable.

The first step is to cut your frames.
They should be at least half-an-inch
thick and about three-quarters of an
inch deep. Look for a birch tree or
other hardwood and see if you can
find branches that grow in the shapes
you need. Then square them out and
shape them with a knife. Warning —
make the wooden parts as smooth as
you can ! Rough wood soon wears
away the leather webbing.

Now bind the pieces of your frame
together with a light binding of hide
strips. The toe bar and heel bar fit
into holes or mortises in the outside
frame- and are held firmly in place
when the permanent binding of the
webbing is tightened around the two
halves of the frame. Good snug joints
where heel and toe bars fit into the
frame are really necessary. If the
wooden parts can slip at all, they'I!
'ork loose.

Lacing the snowshoe is long but easy work. Attach the
webbing to the inside of the frame with copper tacks or
staples. Don't run the webbing around the frame as it will
wear away on the snow too rapidly. The hole in the center
of the shoe is for your toes so make it fit the size of your
foot. The strap is tied behind your ankle and your instep
goes under the front loop. When you step forward, the toes
of your rear foot pass through the hole and your heel rises
easily with the single strap behind the heel. If the shoe were
solid, your toes would soon become stiff. A tip for success-
ful snowshoe travel — try to walk with your feet very far
apart. It's easy to relax and put one snowshoe edge over
the other and the result is usually a bad fall.

ID HI5 MOUNTAIN M

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