Originally Posted by Akbob5
Originally Posted by 4321
Originally Posted by roundoak
Trail model has served me well for years. 10" x 56"

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Used a pair of those for two winters in Fairbanks. They do float.


True, the only downside of these is: 1) maneuverability if you get in a brushy area, and 2) you can break them if you span brush or limbs under the snow. I'm not up on some of the modern snowshoes, but the G.I. Surplus magnesium models are pretty cheap and definitely tough.


With long shoes you learn to do a kick-turn like with skis. For a "bulletproof" pair of shoes, the surplus magnesium ones are tops. The GI binding sucks but I'm something else would work on those. The small cleats on those GI mag snowshoes work fairly well on wind packed snow and ice as long as it isn't too steep.