Ray Mears demonstrates how to make a snow shoe and explains the vital importance of improvisation. How far could you walk in deep snow ?This winter we got 3 ft of snow in a short amount of time and I had to walk less than a mile and was exhausted by the time I was done. Snow shoes would have come in handy.

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Snowshoes