Materials
These are the materials used for modern day snowshoes.
What is steel and alluminum?
This type of snowshoe is used in dense, mountainous areas.
What is the Bearpaw?
This is the reason that snowshoes make you not sink when walking on snow.
What is it spreads the pressure out?
This country is where snowshoes originated from.
What is Asia?
This is how they get the wood of the snowshoe to loosen up to be bent.
What is soaking it?
These are the 2 types of wood used for the traditional snowshoe.
What is ash and birch?
These are the 3 different categories that snowshoes can be classified into.
What is flat terrain, rolling terrain and mountain terrain?
This is what affects what type of snowshoe you will need to wear.
What is the type of snow?
It was around this amount of years ago that snowshoes were invented.
What is 6,000 years?
These, made out of wood, are added across the snowshoe for support.
What are cross beams?
These are the 3 most common animals that had their hide used for the string of the snowshoe.
What is deer, caribou and moose?
Snowshoes that are circular in shape and great for deep snow are called ____ snowshoes.
What is Innu?
This traversing technique allows you to avoid difficult terrain.
What is side hilling?
This is what snowshoes were inspired by.
What are skiis?
This is the type of knot used to tie the string to a snowshoe.
What is a day knot?
This material is used for the laces of a traditional snowshoe.
What is babiche?
This snowshoe is best used in rolling terrains or open woods.
What is the beavertail?
The units in which pressure is measured.
What is PSI?
This area of Europe has traces of early snowshoeing.
What is Scandinavia?
Approximately every ___ minutes, the ends of the snowshoe are tightened to pull them together.
What is 10 minutes?
The babiche is lighter at the toes and the tail while denser at the center for this reason.
What is better suspension?
This type of snowshoe is best used for heavy, dense snow.
What is swallowtail?
This is the maximum distance you should sink before being worried.
What is 1 foot?
These were the tribes that used snowshoes in Asia in the early beginnings of the snowshoe.
What are Tuvans and Kazakhs?
This is how many hours the snowshoe wood needs to be soaked for in order to soften up.
What is 8 hours?