At 6 a.m. my alarm goes off. I hit the snooze control for just five more minutes of rest. The darn...
Author - Jim Joque
Create Your Own Homemade Snowshoe Repair Kit
Kids, teens, young adults, and parents all seem to enjoy the “what’s in my pack” game. I relay a...
Why Do We Snowshoe? A Psycho-Social Analysis or Just Because
Have you ever wondered why we snowshoe? While in psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud may have said...
Snowshoeing Across the U.S: Midwest, East and West Conditions
Over many years of snowshoeing, I humbly learned lots of lessons through experience. A few years...
Snowshoeing Education 303: All I Want for Christmas Are My Two Front Feet (Decked with Boughs of Accessories)
“When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter. ...
Snowshoeing Education 302 – Snowshoeing: Past, Present and Future
Knowing the past and living in the present always leaves us wondering about the future. Knowing...
Snowshoeing Education 301: Up for the Season?
Gearing up for the season by a downhill skier implies that they not only have to get out their...
Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall…Sylvania Offers it All
It was dawn, about 6 AM, when I awoke to the bellowing call of a loon. I am used to waking up at...
High Adventure for a Cause
I do not do high adventure. I am more of a low adventure kind of guy doing snowshoeing, hiking...
Snowshoeing Education 212: What to do Once the Snow is Gone
In my outdoor journal for March 14, 2012, I wrote, “The thermometer read 77 degrees on our way home...
Connecting to Lineage: Crossing Paths on My Ojibwa Snowshoes
My great, great-grandmother on my father’s side of the family was Angelique Beaudoin (pronounced bo...
Snowshoeing Education 210: Moonlight Snowshoeing
Clement C. Moore expressed it poetically in The Night before Christmas when he wrote, “The moon on...