As a child, I had a favorite escapist fantasy: passing a winter holed up in a rustic, high-country cabin. In this dream I smiled a lot, at peace in my solitude, warmed inside and out by a winking wood ...

For hundreds of years, snowshoe technology remained unchanged. Wood and rawhide provided the foundation of design. Then came the revolution. In the 1970s, brothers Bill and Gene Prater founded Sherpa ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. After my recent story on choosing snowshoes, so many of you wrote asking for the results of my snowshoe tests that I’m sharing them with everyone. I ...