Slip your snowshoes through your poles to easily carry them on your back when you're walking on hard, packed snow where snowshoes aren't necessary. Learn how in this free snowshoeing and winter recreation video lesson.
Sheryl McGlochlin, has been teaching snowshoeing classes for years and specializes in teaching how to use snowshoes just like regular shoes.
Hi. My name is Sheryl McGlochlin with crazysheryl.com and on behalf expertvillage.com, we want to talk about how to carry your snowshoes if you are not wearing them and they are nowhere near your car, or you are nowhere near your car. You can go ahead and slip your poles right through. Sometimes, not all snowshoes have this feature, but you can put them through and you can even carry them on your back. The most important thing if you are going to carry them this way is to be able to make sure that the spikes are not directly against your back like Oscar has here; they are away from the body and not going to be walking and pounding on your back. You can carry them this way. Lots of times, the trail may be completely packed down and you won't need to wear your snowshoes. When you are walking however, you can see how Fred has his poles up in the air, because if I'm walking right in back of him, I don't want to get stabbed by his poles. So, you don't want to walk too close to the person who is in front of you. That is an important thing; to know how to carry snowshoes. If you don't have poles, you can just hang on to them, again, with your gloves. And, again, just hang on to them and walk with them if you are tired of wearing snowshoes and you just need to get them off and walk with you because there will be many occasions where you need to do that.
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