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A friend showed me last year how to tie bindings with a piece of shoelace or rope. This is what I used all last winter on my snowshoes, as well as on a smaller pair that same friend gave me for my 5 yearold. The laces can freeze up if they get slushy. Occasionally a foot would pop out, but that just means you're twisting your foot too much. ;)
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When it comes to bindings, what you choose is just as important as the footwear you have. Large bulbous toed boots are a terrible thing to try to slip into some bindings.
But as this topic is about the actual shoe, the new nylon web w/harness work great as they are just about slush proof and stretch proof.
Check out GV Snowshoes. Best I have used. Used them for forestry bush work all winter. Really good bindings and very durable all round snowshoes.
Snowshoes seem to be a personal thing, not every style, design, matierl suits every person. I've tried a few, this will be the 4th winter on my Atlas 1235's
Incredibly light, excellent flotation (I'm a large guy, and with gear they still hold me well)
Bindings are excellent, and in -40 they still don't freeze up.
They are a big shoe, however, so they do require more energy to use, and a slower pace.
http://www.mec.ca/product/5033-675/a...235-snowshoes/
Mine are in red.
had some atlas a long time ago as well. like them first - until I pulled a rivet through and had nothing to fix them (it's a good idea to have cable ties). then I used MSR. fantastic in steep terrain and on hard packed snow, but completely useless in powder...
as other said, chances are you need more than one pair.
make sure you are comfortable with the binding. that means you need to know what shoes you will wear - and that is a topic on it's own.
we do our fair share of shoeing , they come in super handy when looking for cats and the powder gets almost impassable in regular sorrel type boots
Back a half-a-century or more ago, My Dad used to make our snowshoe bindings out of lamp-wick when we were checking our traplines and snares. Worked fine. We never had to use it as such, but he always said that in a worse-case scenario you always had something to start a fire with.
I own a pair of the GV Traditional Hurons and they're pretty nice for the price. I use the rubber bindings and they also work pretty well which makes taking them off and on very quick.
I figure for the amount of use you're going to get out of them every year, it might not be worth the investment into a top of the line pair. And also the amount of time they're going to be just hanging up, they'll look nicer on the wall for the rest of the year than the new modern aluminum/plastic ones.
I'd check out Kijiji first.
I googled, rubber snowshoe bindings, there is quite a lot of info about them and plans to make them. old243
I snow shoe a lot depending on the winter. Last year I stared around mid Dec and wore them everyday till Mar. I walk the dogs thru the hay fields 3-4 times a day so a good 5 miles every day...no tread mill in a stuffy gym for me :)
I have an old wood pair of Faber Bear Paws with original bindings....never a problem for the past 16 yrs.
My wife also walks with us when she's home. We're having a hard time finding her a good pair of binding she can tighten. This year I purchased a pair with BOA bindings. Something different, but they work well for her in the living room, yet to have any snow to test them. Hopefully they will do the trick.
http://cdni.llbean.com/is/image/wim/...5514&id=ARj8P3Quote:
But we feel none is a game changer like the addition of the revolutionary BOA closure. Just pull the adjustment knob out to release the heel strap, slip in your boot and tighten the knob for an exceptional fit. Even better, you don't have to take your gloves off. Adapts to fit most types and sizes of winter boot.
http://www.backcountryedge.com/tubbs...22-womens.aspx