On foot, fat-tire snow bike, and snowshoes, I traversed sites steeped in history and ancient...
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Snowshoes, Snow Bikes, and Sacred Sites in Aomori, Japan
Praying for Snow on the Roof of IndoChina: Sapa and Fansipan Mountain
Snowshoeing in Vietnam. The concept sounds absurd, but the reality of snow in this southeast Asian...
Unexpected Local Snowshoeing Beauty in Japan
The pandemic kept me home but introduced me to views as gorgeous as anywhere on Earth. Worried...
Literature and Snowshoeing in Japan’s Yukiguni (Snow Country)
Wearing ultra-modern snowshoes, I followed the tracks of a fictional character in one of...
Adventures to Add to Your Snowshoe Bucket List
Every year, as the weather gets cooler, the anticipation for the upcoming snowshoe season starts to...
Snowshoeing Surprises in Sanjo, Japan
Surprises and snowshoe treks in rural Japan are traveling companions. En route to an area of Sanjo...
Snowshoe Trails and Hot Springs around Japan’s Nozawa Onsen
Bear-claw-scratched towering trees, an ice-cloaked lake peering at a pure blue sky, the whooshing...
Winter Vacation to Urabandai Saved by a Snowstorm
Mt. Bandai, an 1816-meter-high (5958 ft) dormant volcano in Northern Japan, should have looked like...
Snowshoeing Above The World-Famous Hakuba Village, Nagano, Japan
Pure-white craggy peaks penetrated clouds and rose above them. Soon after getting off the final...
Test Your Snowshoes – 5 (Almost) Easy to Climb Mountain Peaks
Mountain climbing and backcountry snowshoeing are no longer activities reserved for those...
