Winter in snowy regions can be tough for getting outside. Staples such as running and biking become less practical (and more dangerous). The gym serves its purpose but gets tedious and doesn’t get us ...

HEATHER MEADOWS — “The great thing about these snowshoes,” I was telling my dear friend Gail Force as we crunch, crunch, crunched up a slope near Mount Baker, “is that they’re built like a tank.” I ...

Newest mens and women’s snowshoes from MSR have won praise for light weight and smart design. Light in weight but highly durable, Lightning Ascent Snowshoes by Mountain Safety Research (MSR) have ...

For hundreds of years, snowshoe technology remained unchanged. Wood and rawhide provided the foundation of design. Then came the revolution. In the 1970s, brothers Bill and Gene Prater founded Sherpa ...

Gone’s the day when snowshoes resembled tennis rackets strung by Vikings. Bent-hickory frames, webbing from caribou hides and wooden crossbars -- standard snowshoe components a century ago -- have ...

Which men’s snowshoes are best? Snow has frosted the trails and made hiking seem impossible. However, with a good snowshoe, the gate to hiking in winter becomes wide open. It is similar to hiking in ...

GEAR OF THE YEAR: At just a hair over two pounds per pair, the Race is one of the lightest snowshoes on the planet, and its fixed binding felt “practically spring-loaded,” according to one ...