snow shoes
I love snow shoeing. It is liberating, meditative, calming.
Make your own snow shoes, lacing instructions here. During off-snow seasons, add beads or feathers, hang in window as a dreamcatcher. (Here, traditional wins over new technology.)
Lash together an emergency pair:
johnhudsonsurvival.com
Or, use old tennis racquets and bicycle inner tubing.
When not in use, use to strain pasta. (Remove rubber tubing.)
Jack Lemmon & Shirley Maclaine in The Apartment. He is really good with that racquet.
Snow shoes are amazing. I walked in deep Engadin snow, with and without.
Results from the testing department:
• without snow shoes (pink line) – choppy, exhausting, halting walk. I quit rather quickly.
• with snow shoes (green line) – off to S-Chanf!
And now, Jonas heads our way…
Be safe, be well, Everyone, post- and pre- storm. Lace up and happy wandering.
Meanwhile, at sea (seemingly less and less far away):
last week, Tropical storm Alex made landfall. a very rare January Atlantic hurricane.
For those at sea, hope you missed this.
building now: North Pacific Hurricane Force Storm. “…with winds forecast 50-70 knots and seas building to 14 meters (over 45 feet) between 35N-42N latitudes in the main shipping routes.” — Fred Pickhardt, Marine Meteorologist
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Bowsprite 
Hey Christina!!
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I love snowshoeing too!! We have a group that goes out twice a week here in Quebec 😉 Here was my last outing with them – lots of climbing!! https://www.strava.com/activities/472801103
Paul
We can use a pair in BPC..come home already!!!
He didn´t work like a professional. There were so many hints. But none of B.´s countless friends wanted to admit themselves, that “Bowsprite” obviously is a covert name. Let´s face it: B. isn´t just another american in Switzerland, but a swiss agent in America!
Or is there any other reasonable explanation for let him find his readers out, that they need this (his) tool to make self-made snow shoes work?
At least, if you want to catch dreams of Matterhorn. And not of being condemned, to fix IKEA – furniture in hell with a nail file.
I do love that last note. None of my
Swiss Army knives have that many tools. I feel bereft.
Yes, those snow shoes should work well on sand here too. LOL
Did I ever mention that I have a granddaughter growing up in Barcelona?
The old wisdom of less being more applies to Swiss Army knives. Any of those tools is difficult to handle, because it is protruding from a massive bar of steel. And weight plus volume make a rucksack for transport inevitable. I suspect, that some of my orthopedic problems stem from that chunk, I purchased at the age of nine or ten and carried around with me day and night. Other boys admiration at that time doesn´t compensate for suffering in later years…
After reading please destroy.
We made mast hoops for SPIRIT from grape vine. Prolly make pretty good snowshoes. What size do you wear?
hmmmm. Can I try other things from that grape vine? you press any vino?
I want to come down and see SPIRIT! I still have my plank owner certificate. That’s the ticket to get into the tikki hut happy hour, right?
Hey, you’re blogging! Where have I been? 😀
Note to self: get some binding put on the snowshoes in the closet on of these days.
now I know why I missed this post . . I was sailing in the Caribbean trying to catch bioluminescent critters with my dreamcatcher. lovely post. love the with snow shoes and without annotations.