Patent ID: 7509757

Claim:
A snowshoe binding, comprising: a footbed for engaging against the bottom of a user's boot and adapted for securing to a snowshoe, boot binding elements extending up from the footbed, with flexible means connecting a pair of slip-through type adjustment buckles to one side of the footbed, one adjustment buckle being forward near a toe area of the boot and the other being to the rear, generally near the arch area of the boot, strap means connected to the footbed and passing through the adjustment buckles, for enabling tightening of the snowshoe binding snugly over a user's boot, both over the general toe area of the boot and the general arch area of the boot, with a single pull on an intermediate portion of the strap means, between the two buckles, and a flexible heel strap extending in a rearward loop on the binding, the heel strap comprising a continuation of the strap means, and the binding elements including strap guiding and positioning means extending from the one side of the arch area and supporting the heel strap through a portion of the strap loop so as to hold the heel strap in place when a user inserts a boot, whereby a single pull on said intermediate portion of the strap means is effective to tighten the strap means at the toe area and the heel area and also to tighten the heel strap.