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ALBANY, N.Y. – Over the past 30 years, snowshoes have shrunk. Once resembling huge wooden tennis rackets strung with catgut, most models now are about twice the length of your boot and only a few ...

Old-style snowshoes are still being made and vintage models can be purchased at garage sales, thrift stores, antique stores and off the Internet. A Canadian company makes a crampon that can be added ...

As a child, I had a favorite escapist fantasy: passing a winter holed up in a rustic, high-country cabin. In this dream I smiled a lot, at peace in my solitude, warmed inside and out by a winking wood ...

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These past few days of mild weather has put a damper on snow lovers including snowshoe makers. Sunday, January 6, wrapped up the 30th year of snowshoe making at Beaver Creek Reserve in Fall Creek.

Following a pattern that rests on the table, the small group laces the webbing between bent wooden forms -- in what would become their own snowshoes. And here in Benton Harbor's Sarett Nature Center, ...

The winter woods are especially quiet when you're wandering on a pair of snowshoes, even when you're covering a patch of oak and maple in the city. Dana Smith, the manager of the Cleveland Metroparks' ...