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Winter snowshoeing all around Nelson Lakes National Park

Out of necessity, the old Canadian trappers had to come up with an easier way of getting around their trap lines in the dead of winter… so the first version of snow shoes
was born. Today with space age materials the modern snowshoes bares little resemblance to those old timers.

Yvonne and I have used them for years; initially in our climbing we used them as an aid in traveling long distances across glaciers where soft snow made travel very slow
and tedious. For the last five years we have planned trips around snowshoes. Summer tramping has grown to winter snowshoeing all around Nelson Lakes National Park. We used them on our last big trip from Boyle River Lewis Pass back home to St Arnaud.

We have four hire sets, try them, you will be surprised.