The Snowshoe

The snowshoe is an important tool that we will be using in the next couple of weeks.  Its a made of twigs (usually a flexible substance) bent into a circular shape, and leather rawhide strips woven into the frame.  They are usually very long and narrow some know to be 3 times as long as their width.  They allow man to walk swiftly through deep snow and hunt.  This is very important in the winter because you still have to hunt and eat then!  They have been known to date back to 6,000 years ago!  They were used to cross a unknown straight connecting Asia to a place that we think is very close to the river connecting us to the Pacific.  It shall be very important in our journey for we have to cross what seems like the never ending Rocky Mountains in up to 10 feet deep snow!  I just hope when we come to the peak of it all we can look to one direction and see the east and to the other the north.  Anyways the Snowshoe shall help all of us on our journey to the Pacific.