Patent ID: 6898874

Claim:
A snowshoe providing two degrees of rotational freedom of a user's boot relative to the snowshoe, comprising: a snowshoe frame comprising a unitary peripheral element which extends from a nose area of the snowshoe back to a tail end of the snowshoe, the frame being contiguous and forming a closed loop around its periphery, a boot platform, and suspension means secured to left and right sides of the frame and positioned within the frame, for securing the boot platform to the frame with two degrees of rotational freedom, one degree of freedom being about a pitch axis and the second being about a roll axis, with the boot platform being resiliently biased toward a neutral position on both axes, such that a user's boot can flex rotationally about the two degrees of rotational freedom when walking on uneven terrain, and the suspension means substantially preventing rotation of the snowshoe relative to the boot about a generally vertical axis, and decking supported by the snowshoe frame for engaging terrain.