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How To Choose Kids Snowshoes?
Have you ever had one of those moments in your life when you remember why you made a certain choice? I had one of those "aha" moments this past weekend. We had loaned some of our snowshoes to a friend that was going away on a family snowshoe trip to the mountains. Nothing to worry about, we have some other snowshoes from another company that we had used before our whole family started using the MSR brand of snowshoes. They were just collecting dust, and we really liked them before, right? They had a cute little bear on them, the...
Kids snowshoes 101-How to snowshoe with kids.
So you are thinking about snowshoes for you and your kids! What should you know about kid's snowshoes? How young can you start? Where should you go? What works? All great questions so let's dive in. How young should you start? Well, you can start almost as soon as they are walking really well on their own. Our kids started just around 2 1/2. It does depend on your child, though. If they are active and enjoy being outdoors, and will listen to you for guidance, you should be fine. On the other hand, if your child struggles a bit...