Plus, they can be used without snowshoes for regular winter walking. A big advantage. If you can walk, you can snowshoe. The only thing you can't do is go backwards because the heel will stick in the snow and flip you over like a well-tossed pancake. Instead, to reverse direction, pivot by moving the fronts of the snowshoes around in a circle.
Snowshoes have little spiky crampons attached that help grip the icy spots.
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