I m looking for a good place to buy hand made or wood type snowshoes as well as the supply's to make your own.

The ones I have now are not large enough for powder snow. I m in need of a 250lbs powder snow rating.

When I was a kid I always wanted to make my own, but no adult would help me. Someday I might get around to it.

I have two pairs of wonderfully made traditional native 'shoes. The natives used a very tight weave of rawhide not like the commercial wooden ones you used to see. The holes are no more than 3/8 of an inch in diameter. The commercial ones use 1/4" wide lacing but the natives used wet rawhide and pulled it into very tight and thin strands called babiche. First you'll have to kill a moose and make some rawhide.......

Let us know if you make any, I'd love to see the pics.

the chef

Man the pair I made in high school are wicked nice, and yes are made with the modern nylon. I those I made 10 years ago this year.

12x60 Ojibwa would be good for 250+ lbs. and work well in brush as well as on the trail.

Country Ways (formerly Wilcox and Williams) is the best. http://snowshoe.com/index.cfm?pageid=1

http://www.chichesterinc.com/Snowshoes.htm

http://www.snowshoestore.com/

http://www.mgsnowshoes.com/

http://www.runamucktradingco.c...oor-Fun_2902957.html

http://www.snowshoecenter.com/...=235&DepartmentID=35

Tubular nylon lacing may not be traditional but it works very well and is easier to maintain than leather lacing.

Thanks! I ll check it out!

LL Bean used to be the source for wooden shoes , Now I think all the sell are high tech shoes ..

I,ve got some high tech powder shoes in mind . I hate sinking down a foot or more , and I don,t want to wait till spring to wander around on foot ...

. something on the order of 7feet long and 12 " wide with about 8" of rise at the pointed tips . I just need to find the right aluminum channel for the frames