Strongly recommend if you snowshoe for a long distance (ie. under 10 miles) or up hills/mountains, it's a serious workout. We did snowshoeing in one of the National parks surrounded by mountains..for 7 days....we went out daily for 3 hrs. or so.

We usually go snowshoeing several times annually.
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