Boys Life December 2007

Boys Life December 2007
Donald’s Review

Snowed Under

All lined up in a row, two groups of Massachusetts Scouts were beginning their trek across Vermont’s Green Mountains. These scouts were snowshoeing and every one of them fell at least once. A few rules of snowshoeing are to always keep your tip up (front end of snowshoe), never back up, hike in a single line behind the leader, and keep your feet wide apart to keep from stepping on your other snowshoe. They traced the origin of snowshoeing back 6,000 years to Asia. There are two types of snowshoes, one is called the wooden bear paw (Indian snowshoe), which is oval shaped with a curved heel, and has laces like a sneaker. The other is called the military style snowshoe, which is shaped like a teardrop with a short tail at the end, and uses metal buckets as bindings. These scouts loved the adventure.